Quotes about Samuel Butler

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

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

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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

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

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There is no bore like a clever bore.

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have...

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called...

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting...

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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

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

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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our...

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

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