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Quotations by author » Samuel Butler
English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902
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For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident
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For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
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For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.
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Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.
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Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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God is Love - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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God": The word that comes after "go-cart
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Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending
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Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.
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He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.
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