Samuel Butler Quotes
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.