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Samuel Butler (novelist) - Erewhon Revisited (1901)

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

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We see but a part, and being thus unable to generalize human conduct, except very roughly, we deny that it is subject to any fixed laws at all, and ascribe much both of a man's character and actions to chance, or luck, or fortune.

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I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

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It must always be remembered that man's body is what it is through having been molded into its present shape by the chances and changes of an immense time.

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It was a monotonous life, but it was very healthy; and one does not much mind anything when one is well.

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler
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Born: December 4, 1835
Died: June 18, 1902 (aged 66)
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