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Samuel Butler
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Samuel Butler
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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Samuel Butler
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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Samuel Butler
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Samuel Butler
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Samuel Butler
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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