People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced

Quote by Samuel Butler

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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the...

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on...

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on...

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams...

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams...

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

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...

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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...

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

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

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

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to...

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The history of art is the history of revivals

The history of art is the history of revivals

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...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which...

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil....