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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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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping…
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Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion…
— James I. Robertson, Jr.
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While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein…
— Jack London
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs…
— Bertrand Russell
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A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors,…
— William Shatner
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