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• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

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  Book

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

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  Men, Different Opinions, Interest

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

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• Let man be true and every god a liar.

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  Liars, Lying, Men

  "Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill".

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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

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  Art, Architecture, Revival

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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  Justice, Innocence, Sometimes

  Samuel Butler (1806). “Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars”, p.248

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• Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

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  Thinking, Religion, Way

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

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

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  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

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  Funny, Life, Death

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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  Vicious, Virtuous

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

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• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.288, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

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  Money, Children, School

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

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  Vices, Virtue, Function

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

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• 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.

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  Spring, Action, Consciousness

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.25, Samuel Butler

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• [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

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  Mind, Doe, Metaphysics

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  "The Guardian view on drinking culture: statistics, myths and alcohol abuse", www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

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• A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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  Healing, Physicians, Divinity

  Notebooks (1912) Ch. XIV

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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  Men, Animal, Laughing

  "1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.

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• The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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  Inspirational, Praise, Advantage

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 34

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• People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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  Fashion, Clever, People

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

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  Heaven, Mars, Felicity

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

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  Genius, Might, Kind

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 11

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• The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

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  Writing, Drained

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

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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  Truth, Pearls, Rich

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

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• The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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  Art, War, Literature

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

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• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

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  Men, Sense Of Humor, Sin

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