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Samuel Butler
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ✨ Samuel Butler (1970). A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ✨ Samuel Butler (2013). Erewhon Revisited, p.103, Simon and Schuster
Be virtuous and you will be vicious. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4357 … ▶
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ✨ Samuel Butler (2016). The Way of All Flesh, p.75, Samuel Butler

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. ✨ Samuel Butler (1970). A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon

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