God cannot alter the past though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Author: Samuel Butler

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Books are like imprisoned souls, till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.