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- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler
- All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Samuel Butler
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- Samuel Butler
- Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
- Samuel Butler
- I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- Samuel Butler
- I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler
- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- Samuel Butler
- Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
- Samuel Butler
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler
- Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
- Samuel Butler
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- Samuel Butler
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Samuel Butler
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872)
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Samuel Butler, In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
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