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Samuel Butler

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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.


— Samuel Butler


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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.


— Samuel Butler


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


— Samuel Butler


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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.


— Samuel Butler


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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.


— Samuel Butler


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


— Samuel Butler


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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.


— Samuel Butler


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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


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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.


— Samuel Butler


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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.


— Samuel Butler


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