Samuel Butler Quotes

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  Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  Samuel Butler

  Integrity, Grateful, Character

  Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, William Morris (2014). “The Utopia MEGAPACK ®: 20 Classic Utopian and Dystopian Works”, p.31, Wildside Press LLC

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

  Samuel Butler

  Motivational

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4163, Delphi Classics

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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  Life, Art, Bad Ass

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press

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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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  Life, Educational, Learning

  Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 Feb. 1895, in R. A. Streatfield Essays on Life, Art and Science (1904) p. 69

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• It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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  Love, Money, Roots

  Erewhon (1872) ch. 20

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• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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  Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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  Hate, Lying, Mind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 19

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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

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  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

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  Dog, Humorous, Animal

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

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  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

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  Fear, Halloween, Inspiration

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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  Love, Life, History

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

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  People, Common Sense, Atmosphere

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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  Beauty, Pain, Compassion

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

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  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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  Life, Wisdom, Art

  Notebooks "Life" (1912)

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• People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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  People, Lucky, Ratios

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

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  Life, Happiness, Fear

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

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  Religious, Men, Important

  Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 93

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• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

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  Atheist, Fighting, Names

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4357, Delphi Classics

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• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

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  Anger, Gains, Debate

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4366, Delphi Classics

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