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Samuel Butler Quotes

«That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy»
«Compound for sins they are inclined to, by damning those they have no mind to»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: compound, damning, inclined
«Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as pigs squeak»
«Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Love | Keywords: styled
«He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: full moon, shine at
«And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: apostolic
«God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: God, Past | Keywords: connive, connive at, conniving, Historians
«While to deny the existence of an unseen kingdom is bad, to pretend that we know more about it than its bare existence is no better»
Author: Samuel Butler
«He was born stupid and greatly improved his birthright»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: improved
«For things said false and never meant, Do oft prove true by accident»
Author: Samuel Butler