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Than Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is…
- Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- 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…
- A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
- There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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