Famous Quotes By Samuel Butler

Two are better than one, but the man who said that did not know my sisters.

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

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The money that men make lives after them.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture.

She is a very fascinating woman, and he is very fond of fascinating with her.

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions - Thomas Jefferson

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