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Love Quotes by Samuel Butler
- We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make…
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
- Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
- Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
- The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
- A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
- God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
- Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
- There is no bore like a clever bore.
- There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
- Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
- Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
- Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
- Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child
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- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide