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- I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Erewhon (1872)
- An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir
- All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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