413 Quotes by Samuel Butler
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To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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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.
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Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as pigs squeak
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