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Quotes by Samuel Butler

"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
By Samuel Butler
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"It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
By Samuel Butler
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"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."
By Samuel Butler
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"It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something."
By Samuel Butler
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
By Samuel Butler
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"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
By Samuel Butler
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
By Samuel Butler
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty."
By Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
By Samuel Butler
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
By Samuel Butler
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"Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
By Samuel Butler
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
By Samuel Butler
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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
By Samuel Butler
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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
By Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
By Samuel Butler
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"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
By Samuel Butler
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"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
By Samuel Butler
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
By Samuel Butler
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"Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it."
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"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds."
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"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
By Samuel Butler
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"All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others."
By Samuel Butler
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"Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
By Samuel Butler
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
By Samuel Butler
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
By Samuel Butler
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