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- Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), said in 1885
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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