Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have...

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have...

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which...

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete...

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will...

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The...

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that...

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon...