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~ Samuel Butler Quotes ~
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Samuel Butler Quotes


A poet and satirist.
Samuel Butler (8 February 1612 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.

Here are some famous quotes by Samuel Butler.




Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
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I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2015, 10:44:57 AM »
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2015, 10:45:30 AM »
God cannot alter the past though historians can.
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« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2015, 10:46:04 AM »
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2015, 10:46:37 AM »
I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2015, 10:47:11 AM »
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2015, 10:47:45 AM »
Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us.
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« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2015, 10:48:21 AM »
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
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« Reply #10 on: September 13, 2015, 10:49:09 AM »
Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.
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« Reply #11 on: September 13, 2015, 10:50:41 AM »
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
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« Reply #12 on: September 13, 2015, 10:51:24 AM »
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2015, 10:52:06 AM »
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
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« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2015, 10:52:52 AM »
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
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