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Only Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
- A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school…
- The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you,…
- When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
- 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…
- Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
- God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is…
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat
- One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so
- Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
- There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get…
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