All Samuel Butler Quotes
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler in
Funny
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler in
Death
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
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