Quotes by Samuel Butler

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A hen is merely a tool for an egg to make another egg.

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He produces it in order, who has come to a poem, one line for another.

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All animals except humans know that the most important thing in life is to enjoy it.

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Living is like loving: reason is against everything, and healthy instinct is for everything.

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Friendship is like money, it's easier to get than to keep.

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Any fool can tell the truth. But it takes talent to lie well.

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When justice turns a blind eye to crimes, it sometimes stumbles upon innocence.

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Life is like playing a violin to an audience and learning to play along the way.

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They say that while God cannot change the past, historians can; perhaps the Lord tolerates them precisely because they can be useful in this respect.

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He who is persuaded against his will is still of his own opinion.

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Let's be grateful to the mirror that it only shows our appearance!

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You don't get much with faith, but without faith you get nothing.

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The gullible mind (...) finds its greatest joy in believing in incredible things. The more incredible they are, the easier you believe them; but he is not interested in what is simply accessible, because anyone can believe in such things.