Tag: Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same,Whether it win or lose the gameTrue as a dial to the sun,Although it be not shined upon.

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

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The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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The course of true anything does not run smooth.

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

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There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

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To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

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To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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