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From Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
- From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
- A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
- Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
- 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.
- Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all,…
- 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…
- If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first…
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler
- A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from…
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