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Samuel Butler Quotes

«But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease»
Author: Samuel Butler
«If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall long be surprised to find out how little remains that we cannot do»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: promptly
«He ne'er considered it, as loath To look a gift-horse in the mouth»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: gift horse, loath
«To me it seems that youth is like spring, an over-praised season delightful if it happens to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Youth | Keywords: biting, breezes, genial, in practice
«For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: rhetorician
«For brevity is very good, where we are, or are not understood»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Learning | Keywords: repair
«Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things»
Author: Samuel Butler
«There is no mistake so great as that of being always right»
Author: Samuel Butler
«For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain»
Author: Samuel Butler