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Samuel Butler Quotes

«The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: hen, producing
«Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Marriage | Keywords: felicity, Mar
«When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«God cannot alter the past, though historians can.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«All truth is not to be told at all times.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust»
«Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: straits
«It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: after death
«Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last»
«The course of true anything never does run smooth»
Author: Samuel Butler