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- Read the works of Samuel Butler online at The Literature Page
- 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
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
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