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Samuel Butler Quotes

«The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: rooted, The Wish
«The body is but a pair of pincers set over bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts»
«Why should not Conscience have a vacation»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate»
«The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Literature | Keywords: The Current
«To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Some who had received a liberal education at the Colleges of Unreason, and taken the highest degrees in hypothetics, which are their principal study»
«We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Oaths are but words, and words but wind»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: experts