All Samuel Butler Quotes
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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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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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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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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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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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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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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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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