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Been Quotes by Samuel Butler
- The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
- People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have…
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
- Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way…
- When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a…
- For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the…
- People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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