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“Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

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

— Samuel Butler · No category

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

— Samuel Butler · Life

“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”

— Samuel Butler · Lies

“The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

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

— Samuel Butler · Money

“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

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

— Samuel Butler · Genius

“All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”

— Samuel Butler · Philosophy

“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“He that complies against his will is of the same opinion still.”

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“Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.”

— Samuel Butler · No category

“Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.”

— Samuel Butler · No category