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All animals, except man, know ...

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

In law, nothing is certain but...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Parents are the last people on...

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

If the headache would only pre...

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

If I die prematurely I shall b...

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

A drunkard would not give mone...

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Look before you leap for as yo...

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The worst thing that can happe...

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

We are not won by arguments th...

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Man is God's highest present d...

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The one serious conviction tha...

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

To himself everyone is immorta...

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Human life is as evanescent as...

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

I never knew a writer yet who ...

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Oaths are but words, and words...

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

To give pain is the tyranny; t...

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The history of art is the hist...

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Be virtuous and you will be vi...

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Young people have a marvelous ...

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

People are lucky and unlucky n...

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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