Samuel Butler

(51 votes)   The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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(26 votes)   People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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(18 votes)   It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

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(16 votes)   Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

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(416 votes)   When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(310 votes)   Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(300 votes)   There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(285 votes)   Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(205 votes)   Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(153 votes)   When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(151 votes)   If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(145 votes)   Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.

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1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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(133 votes)   An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

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(131 votes)   Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

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(126 votes)   For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist

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