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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bodily #faculty #goodness #men #mental

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#current #custom #feeling #morality #peers

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christian religion #doubted #equally #general #hearing

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #easy #forgive #least #like

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#get #interest #money #much #never

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bet #betting #faith #i #kind

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#asks #doubt #guide #hence #him