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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
Life
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Samuel Butler
Understanding
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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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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Nature
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
Samuel Butler
Opinion
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Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
Samuel Butler
Community
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Samuel Butler
Oaths
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
Culture
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Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
Samuel Butler
Morals
140
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler
Ignorance
130
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Logic is like the sword
Samuel Butler
Logic
127
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler
Argument
125
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A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip: there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Samuel Butler
Nobility
124
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
Men
122
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
Life
120
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler
Appealing
115
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There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
Samuel Butler
Education
115
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Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way – who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with.
Samuel Butler
Uncategorized
109
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Fear
105
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Samuel Butler
Conscience
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
Agreement
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler
Appearance
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We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Samuel Butler
Lies
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler
Uncategorized
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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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Band
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
Samuel Butler
Adultery
92
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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.
Samuel Butler
Memory
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The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
Media
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He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
Opinions
90
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We have all sinned and come short of the glory of making ourselves as comfortable as we easily might have done.
Samuel Butler
Happiness
90
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler
Christ
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A man first quarrels with his father about three-quarters of a year before he is born.
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Family
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
Alcohol
89
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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
Tact
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler
Love
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Sincerity
88
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler
Uncategorized
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The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them the superstructure will come tumbling down.
Samuel Butler
Morals
88
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
Lies
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler
Life
87
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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler
Greatness
87
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
DeceptionLying
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
Argument
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler
Happiness
85
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
Art
85
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Autumn is the mellower season and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler
Nature
85
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Samuel Butler
Excess
84
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Poetry resembles metaphysics one does not mind ones own but one does not like anyone elses.
Samuel Butler
Metaphysics
84
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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.
Samuel Butler
Loss
84
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
Fools
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