It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

Friendship is like money, more easily made than kept.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

A man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of...

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

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...

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken...

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new...

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new...

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest...

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest...

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is,...

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is,...

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription....

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

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

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

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

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...

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should...

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should...

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful...

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful...

This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls -...

This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls -...