To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Quote by Samuel Butler

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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep...

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence

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...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets...

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they...

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature...

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and...

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and...

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do...

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do...

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...

There is no bore like a clever bore.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

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...

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

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....

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my...