Quotes about Samuel Butler

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives...

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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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

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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep...

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

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

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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there...

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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or...

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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