Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The want of money is the root of all evil. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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