"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap,……" — Samuel Butler

"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

— Samuel Butler

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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler has 228 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to…
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till…
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will…
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he…

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More Abound Quotes

This quote is filed under Abound Quotes, one of 95 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most… — Teresa of Avila
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. — Joseph Addison
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you. — Mel Brooks
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness… — Archibald Alexander
Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. — W. S. Gilbert
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound. — Ben Jonson
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known… — Algernon Sidney
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many… — Charles Lyell
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would… — Bell Hooks
The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound. — Alain de Botton
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors… — Robert Boyle

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