Quotes by Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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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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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to...

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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

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