People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

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

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to...

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to...

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

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...

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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...

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

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

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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...

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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...

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.