All Samuel Butler Quotes
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
Samuel Butler
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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