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Quotes by Samuel Butler
- 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.
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
- A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
- A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
- A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
- A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- All truth is not to be told at all times.
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
- And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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