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Samuel Butler has 241 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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,…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
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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,…
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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…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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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…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing…
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Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply…
— Hartley Coleridge
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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see…
— Augustus Hare
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
— Samuel Butler
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