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Quotations by author » Samuel Butler
English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name
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Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness
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Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.
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There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour
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There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
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There is no mistake so great as that of being always right
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
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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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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him
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