All Samuel Butler Quotes
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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