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Samuel Butler Quotes
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~ Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ~
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~ Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind ~
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~ The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance. ~
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~ In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ~
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~ A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide." ~
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~ The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~
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~ Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ~
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~ Youth is like spring, an overpraised season ~
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~ You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. ~
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~ Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. ~
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~ Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime ~
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~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~
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~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~
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~ Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others ~
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~ We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself ~
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