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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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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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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We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
Samuel Butler
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.
Samuel Butler
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
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Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.
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If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.
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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
Samuel Butler
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Samuel Butler
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.
Samuel Butler
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler
