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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
By Samuel Butler
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
By Samuel Butler
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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Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon.
By Samuel Butler
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
By Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
By Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
By Samuel Butler
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
By Samuel Butler
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
By Samuel Butler
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
By Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.
By Samuel Butler
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.
By Samuel Butler
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
By Samuel Butler
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
By Samuel Butler