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Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Let every man be true and every god a liar.
- Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
- Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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