We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism...

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be...

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our...

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing...

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing...

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to...

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it...

To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it...

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of...

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing...

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing...

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.