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Words are like money there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler
Age: 66 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 4
Died: 1902
Died: June 18
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More quotes by Samuel Butler
Business should be like religion and science it should know neither love nor hate.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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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.
Samuel Butler
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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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.
Samuel Butler
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
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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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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
Samuel Butler
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.
Samuel Butler
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
Friends are like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
