Quote by Samuel Butler
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be

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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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