All Samuel Butler Quotes
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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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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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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