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Samuel Butler Quotes

«Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: all round
«An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: obstinate
«When I was there I found their jokes, like their roads - very long and not very good, leading to a little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Jokes | Keywords: remorselessly, seeming, spire, spires, tinned, tins
«We think as we do, mainly because other people think so»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Thinking | Keywords: mainly
«I am the enfant terrible of literature and science»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Literature, Science | Keywords: enfant, enfant terrible
«The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.»
«I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: inaccuracy
«Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.»
«Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.»