| To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| The course of true anything never does run smooth. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Oaths are but words, and words but wind. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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| Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds. |
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- Samuel Butler |
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