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Samuel Butler Quotes
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The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.
It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
Never read anything until not to have read it has bothered you for some time.
If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. It if tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever, or amiable.
Inspirational Quote
Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Humorous Quote
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
Success Quote
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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