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Samuel Butler (novelist) Quotes (1835-1902)
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About Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
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“Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.”
“He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.”
“Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”
“All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.”
“To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
“It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.”
“If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight.”
“The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.”
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
“The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”
About Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.