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Samuel Butler Inspirational Quotes (139)

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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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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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.
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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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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.
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There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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