413 Quotes by Samuel Butler


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    To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

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    They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

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    I've known him for a long time, ... He's always been a man of integrity, always been a man of the community and the needs of the community, and the black community is going to stand behind him.

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    We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

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    Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily

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    The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

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