The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness

Cleanliness is almost as bad as godliness

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that...

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that...

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism...

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is...

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and...

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

To be at all is to be religious more or less

To be at all is to be religious more or less

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...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall...

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 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...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but...

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but...

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

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

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