People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.


Samuel Butler

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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has wri...
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
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Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man ma...
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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as tr...
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Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th...
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
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Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
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Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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