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Own Quotes by Samuel Butler
- If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
- God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
- There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
- Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
- It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- 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,…
- [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
- Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
- He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
- 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…
- Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
- 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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