Samuel Butler Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
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If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
