Samuel Butler

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

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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Let every man be true and every god a liar. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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