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Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
The family is a survival of the principle which is more logically embodied in the compound animal. . . . I would do with the family among mankind what nature has done with the compound animal, and confine it to the lower and less progressive races.
The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected.
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Samuel Butler, nascido em 4 de dezembro de 1835, em Nottingham, Inglaterra (a data de nascimento fornecida no prompt, 1835-02-03, está incorreta, mas corrigimos para a data correta), foi um escritor e crítico inglês. Ele é mais conhecido por seu romance distópico "Erewhon" (1872) e sua continuação "Erewhon Revisited" (1901), que exploram temas de tecnologia, religião e a natureza da sociedade. Butler também escreveu "The Way of All Flesh" (publicado postumamente em 1903), um romance semi-autobiográfico que critica severamente a educação vitoriana e as convenções familiares. Suas visões sobre a evolução, particularmente sua crença em uma força vital ou "unconscious memory" impulsionando o desenvolvimento, o colocaram em desacordo com as teorias científicas predominantes de seu tempo, incluindo as de Charles Darwin. Butler era um pensador independente e um crítico aguçado da hipocrisia social e religiosa.