Samuel Butler (novelist) quotes - page 15

The want of money is the root of all evil. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion. View quote
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry. View quote
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It is tact that is golden, not silence. View quote
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. View quote
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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. View quote
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. View quote
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. View quote
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All truth is not to be told at all times. View quote
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He was born stupid and greatly improved his birthright. View quote
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