Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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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...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees...

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...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy....

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The...

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The...

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely...

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.