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Letter "S" » Samuel Butler Quotes
«In law, nothing is certain but the expense.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The money men make lives after them.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.»
«Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Virgil was no good because Tennyson ran him, and as for Tennyson - well, Tennyson goes without saying.»
«Have always been at daggers-drawing, / And one another clapper-clawing.»
«He is a poor creature who does not believe himself to be better than the whole world else; no matter how ill we may be, nor how low we have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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