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Samuel Butler Quotes
«Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t»
«Neither have the hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Adversity
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arrived, degrees, equanimity, set down, supportable
«There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.»
«To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Age
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basket, consign, consigned, waste-paper basket, wastepaper basket
«An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little draughty.»