People Quote by Samuel Butler

“People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.”

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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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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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