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Letter "S" » Samuel Butler Quotes
«Life is one long process of getting tired.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Life
«If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Communication,
People,
Sorrow,
World
| Keywords:
a good deal, good deal, hence, unreservedly
«It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all»
Author: Samuel Butler
«A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.»
«Life is not an exact science, it is an art.»
«Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.»
«The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Arrogance,
Ignorance,
Pride,
Vanity
| Keywords:
arrogance, characters, Pride and, truest, vanity
«All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.»
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