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Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We...

Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas. We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble-no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

In practice it is seldom very...

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The youth of an art is, like ...

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Genius might be described as ...

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Our own death is a premium wh...

Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Autumn is the mellower season...

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Sensible people get the great...

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Let man be true and every god...

Let man be true and every god a liar.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Prayers are to men as dolls a...

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

I fall asleep in the full and...

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Spare the rod and spoil the c...

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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Man, unlike the animals, has ...

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

To die completely, a person m...

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

If a man knows not life which...

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

Loyalty is still the same, wh...

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

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Arguments are like fire-arms ...

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

The extremes of vice and virt...

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

There are two great rules of ...

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.

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When people talk of atoms obe...

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

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He is greatest who is most of...

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Samuel Butler 458 quotes

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