Samuel Butler Quotes
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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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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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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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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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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.
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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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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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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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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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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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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.