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Letter "S" » Samuel Butler Quotes
«Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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besetting
«I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other - I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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artificially, connections, hang together, prolong, unduly, unhappiness
«The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Common sense
«There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.»
«To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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industrious
«There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.»
«Then spare the rod and spoil the child.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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rod
«People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.»
«The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.»
«The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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thieving
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