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The course of true anything never does run smooth.
Category: Adversity Author: Samuel Butler
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Category: Appearance Author: Samuel Butler
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Category: Autumn Author: Samuel Butler
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Samuel Butler
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
Category: Conformity Author: Samuel Butler
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Samuel Butler
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Category: Death Author: Samuel Butler
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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.
Category: Dogs Author: Samuel Butler
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
Category: Experience Author: Samuel Butler
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Category: Fear Author: Samuel Butler
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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.
Category: Food Author: Samuel Butler
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To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
Category: God Author: Samuel Butler
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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.
Category: Health Author: Samuel Butler
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Category: History Author: Samuel Butler
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I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Category: Honesty Author: Samuel Butler
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Category: Language Author: Samuel Butler
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Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Category: Language Author: Samuel Butler
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Category: Language Author: Samuel Butler
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Category: Life Author: Samuel Butler
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Category: Money Author: Samuel Butler
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