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Quote by Samuel Butler
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. – Samuel Butler

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God
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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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Christianity
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Samuel Butler
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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respect
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Samuel Butler
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Fear
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that theres a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and thats the way Id like to convey them myself. – Danica McKellar

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Fear

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. – Francis Bacon

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Fear

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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Fear

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings

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Fear

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