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Samuel Butler Inspirational Quotes (140)

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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
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Letters are like wine if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
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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.
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To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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