Samuel Butler Quotes
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.