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Samuel Butler Quotes

«It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: root
«The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Books, Reading | Keywords: oldest
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself»
«Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Genius | Keywords: abate, abated, abates, colleges, schools, traps
«Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes»
«Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers»
«Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: atheist, some other, theist
«The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: liar, longest, the smallest
«You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Faith, Truth | Keywords: do-nothing
«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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