Samuel Butler

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All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it

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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children

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Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon

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Mention but the word "divinity," and our sense of the divine is clouded