Samuel Butler Quotes
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.