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Letter "S" » Samuel Butler Quotes
«For justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclined»
«I am not in Fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower»
Author: Samuel Butler
«For 'tis in vain to think or guess, At women by appearances»
Author: Samuel Butler
«For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring»
Author: Samuel Butler
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twill
«The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Conviction
«The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places»
«Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden - not silence»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Silence
«It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg»
Author: Samuel Butler
«It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Historians
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