Quotes about Samuel Butler

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself...

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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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

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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit...

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

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The...

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on...

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest...

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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be,...

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

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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper,...

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