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Samuel Butler Quotes

«He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«I've known him for a long time, ... He's always been a man of integrity, always been a man of the community and the needs of the community, and the black community is going to stand behind him.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«With what's going on right now, we all need to stand behind this man, ... We need to let them know it's wrong and we know it's wrong.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: exert, resent, safer
«Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive inter se. So the arctic volcano can do nothing against arctic ice.»
«As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Doctors, Mistakes | Keywords: habitually, innumerable
«Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Words | Keywords: satisfactory