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