Quotes about Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath...

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Let every man be true and every god a liar.

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

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

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It is tact that is golden, not silence.

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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is,...

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

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

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

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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be;...

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good,...

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