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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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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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 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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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.