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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

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Providence and Improvidence

I

We should no longer say: Put your trust in Providence, but in Improvidence, for this is what we mean.

Ii

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Iii

There is nothing so imprudent or so improvident as over-prudence or over-providence.

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