Samuel Butler, the Younger Quotes

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

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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 general rule.

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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

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All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it.

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It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at all.

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Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study.

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The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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Logic is like the sword those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

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An apology for the Devil It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

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When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

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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.

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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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 outwith charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and notin the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

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It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

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Is life worth living This is a question for an embryo, not for a man.

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'Man wants but little here below' but likes that little goodand not too long in coming.

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There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

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