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Letter "S" » Samuel Butler Quotes
«Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind»
«Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Life
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by ear, composed, doubtful, had better, nevertheless, The Rules
«It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.»
«We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself»
«When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.»
«An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.»
«If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's.»
«There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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affects
«Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.»
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