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Samuel Butler Quotes
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Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers (Samuel Butler Quotes)
My main wish is to get my books into other people’s rooms, and to keep other people’s books out of mine (Samuel Butler Quotes)
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction (Samuel Butler Quotes)
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once (Samuel Butler Quotes)
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect (Samuel Butler Quotes)
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable (Samuel Butler Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing (Samuel Butler Quotes)
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself (Samuel Butler Quotes)
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence (Samuel Butler Quotes)
When you’ve told someone that you’ve left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends (Samuel Butler Quotes)
God’s merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion (Samuel Butler Quotes)
The limits of the body seem well defined enough as definitions go, but definitions seldom go far (Samuel Butler Quotes)
We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long dead, but whose appearance we know through their portraits (Samuel Butler Quotes)
If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight (Samuel Butler Quotes)
We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one (Samuel Butler Quotes)
God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before or after it has been reached: yet both aspects are real (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country (Samuel Butler Quotes)
To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself (Samuel Butler Quotes)
Words impede and either kill, or are killed by, perfect thought; but they are, as a scaffolding, useful, if not indispensable, for the building up of imperfect thought and helping to perfect it (Samuel Butler Quotes)
All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed (Samuel Butler Quotes)