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Those 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…
- Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
- The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read 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.
- The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
- The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
- Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his…
- 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,…
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
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- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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