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c3e70f8 The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. Samuel Butler (novelist)
64e6370 Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler (novelist)
aee3ee1 Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor. Samuel Butler (novelist)
a421da5 The devil tempted Christ; yes, but it was Christ who tempted the devil to tempt him. Samuel Butler (novelist)
8c17513 To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. Samuel Butler (novelist)
a059cfa Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler (novelist)
e71fde8 If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight. Samuel Butler (novelist)
96d5c4b Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler (novelist)
941552a The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being. Samuel Butler (novelist)
7390d79 An energy is a soul -- a something working in us. Samuel Butler (novelist)
7cf6f28 Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains. Samuel Butler (novelist)
bde9b52 Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. Samuel Butler (novelist)
f56f6c7 Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. Samuel Butler (novelist)
ced9145 Ideas] are like shadows -- substantial enough until we try to grasp them. Samuel Butler (novelist)
7f7cba6 A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. Samuel Butler (novelist)
b12b703 Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace. Samuel Butler (novelist)
9d43016 If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success. Samuel Butler (novelist)
ceb432b All men can do great things, if they know what great things are. Samuel Butler (novelist)
21d4841 I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. Samuel Butler (novelist)
aaf52c4 It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. Samuel Butler (novelist)
4469eec Time is the only true purgatory. Samuel Butler (novelist)
76051b2 He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts. Samuel Butler (novelist)
ed3eeb2 A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. Samuel Butler (novelist)
9cee8b9 The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler (novelist)
5e14942 Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler (novelist)
bfc27ec To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it. Samuel Butler (novelist)
ae53c90 To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler (novelist)
0da3056 Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. Samuel Butler (novelist)
7c6ee20 Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so. Samuel Butler (novelist)
17c14e7 Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler (novelist)
1c2d84b I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. Samuel Butler (novelist)
87c4209 You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. Samuel Butler (novelist)
48cc5c9 There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Samuel Butler (novelist)
9927233 The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it. Samuel Butler (novelist)
9ee53a8 They were gentlemen in the full sense of the word; and what has one not said in saying this? Samuel Butler (novelist)
c48a294 Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. Samuel Butler (novelist)
1ae0d56 Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime. Samuel Butler (novelist)
a5e68e2 The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler (novelist)
1ee7e1a An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. Samuel Butler (novelist)