Samuel Butler, the Younger Quotes

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

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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

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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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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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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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... There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. Even Euclid, who has laid himself as little open to the charge of credulity as any writer who ever lived, cannot get beyond this. He has no demonstrable first premise. He requires postulates and axioms which transcend demonstration, and without which he can do nothing. His superstructure indeed is demonstration, but his ground his faith. Nor again can he get further than telling a man he is a fool if he persists in differing from him. He says 'which is absurd,' and declines to discuss the matter further. Faith and authority, therefore, prove to be as necessary for him as for anyone else.

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It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.

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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to market it.

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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

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Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.

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Youth is like spring, an overpraised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.

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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.

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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

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Theres many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

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