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Samuel Butler Quotes

«We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: offend
«Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: loudly, moderate
«Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Cleric before, and Lay behind; / A lawless linsy-woolsy brother, / Half of one order, half another.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: cleric, clerics
«A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: leech, leeches, skilful
«The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Ay me! what perils do environ / The man that meddles with cold iron!»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: cold iron, environ, meddles
«Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.»
«Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.»