Quotes by Samuel Butler

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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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor...

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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as...

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should...

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