All Samuel Butler Quotes
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler in
Death
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler in
Funny
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
Samuel Butler
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler
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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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