All Samuel Butler Quotes
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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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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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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