Quote by Samuel Butler
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they shou

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. – Samuel Butler

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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s. – Samuel Butler

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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