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Quotes of Samuel Butler 1862-1947 American Educationist
Samuel Butler Photo and Biography
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. (lies and lying)
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. (infallibility)
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. (medicine)
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. (moralists)
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. (philosophers and phi)
The money men make lives after them. (money)
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. (pleasure)
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday. (preachers and preach)
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. (music)
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. (parents and parentin)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (reason)
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. (work)
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. (opinions)
Opinions have vested interests just as men have. (opinions)
The want of money is the root of all evil. (money)
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. (truth)
For every why he had a wherefore. (questions)
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance. (science and scientis)
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. (taste)
There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. (rules)
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. (punishment)
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. (truth)
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. (seriousness)
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. (understanding)
It is tact that is golden, not silence. (tact and tactfulness)
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