Apology Quote by Samuel Butler

“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”

Samuel Butler

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to…

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to…

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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

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“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed…

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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Apologies are not pass/fail.

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“A lady need never apologize. ~ Joseph de Bonaparte (Brother of Napoleon)”

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And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

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In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles…

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I never said Kristen ruined my wedding. At the time, when a million other things had fallen apart that day, I felt like she…

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The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are…

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I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious…

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For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

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A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from…

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We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to…

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