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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
- Samuel Butler
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
- Samuel Butler
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
- Samuel Butler
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
- Samuel Butler
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
- Samuel Butler
Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
- Samuel Butler
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood.
- Samuel Butler
The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
- Samuel Butler
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Samuel Butler
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
- Samuel Butler
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot.
- Samuel Butler
Always eat grapes downward - that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
- Samuel Butler
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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