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The three most important thing...

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The most important service ren...

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

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The man who lets himself be bo...

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The healthy stomach is nothing...

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The dons of Oxford and Cambrid...

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The dead should be judged like...

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

God was satisfied with his own...

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Theist and atheist: the fight ...

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The Athanasian Creed is to me ...

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

A man should be just cultured ...

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

A man's friendships are, like ...

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

All philosophies, if you ride ...

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

All progress is based upon a u...

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

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

It has been said that the love...

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 458 quotes

My main wish is to get my book...

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Life is a quarry, out of which...

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Letters are like wine; if they...

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

One of the first businesses of...

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

If we attend continually and p...

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 458 quotes

Half the vices which the world...

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

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