All Samuel Butler Quotes
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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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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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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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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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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