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Quotations by author » Samuel Butler
English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902
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Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate
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That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places
Praise
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Truth
The body is but a pair of pincers set over bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts
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The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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The course of true anything never does run smooth
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The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
Death and dying
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
AnimalsDogs
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
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The history of art is the history of revivals
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The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
DoctorsMistakes
The money men make lives after them.
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