All Samuel Butler Quotes
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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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.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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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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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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