Samuel Butler Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)
Samuel Butler quotes and sayings page 10 (poet). Here's quote # 91 through 100 out of the 125 we have.
“Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.”
“I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.”
“If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.”
“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.”
“Let every man be true and every god a liar.”
“The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”
“Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.”
“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.”
“When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.”
“A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.”
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