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Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Samuel Butler Quotes ~
« Reply #45 on: September 13, 2015, 11:28:39 AM »
People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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« Reply #46 on: September 13, 2015, 11:34:57 AM »
It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
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« Reply #47 on: September 13, 2015, 11:36:30 AM »
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
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« Reply #48 on: September 13, 2015, 11:37:39 AM »
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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« Reply #49 on: September 13, 2015, 11:38:19 AM »
Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game; True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon.
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« Reply #50 on: September 13, 2015, 11:39:27 AM »
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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« Reply #51 on: September 13, 2015, 11:40:10 AM »
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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« Reply #52 on: September 13, 2015, 11:40:47 AM »
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
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« Reply #53 on: September 13, 2015, 11:41:20 AM »
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
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« Reply #54 on: September 13, 2015, 11:42:18 AM »
Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
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« Reply #55 on: September 13, 2015, 11:43:03 AM »
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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« Reply #56 on: September 13, 2015, 11:44:03 AM »
A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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« Reply #57 on: September 13, 2015, 11:45:10 AM »
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
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« Reply #58 on: September 13, 2015, 11:45:50 AM »
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you but he will make a fool of himself too.
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« Reply #59 on: September 13, 2015, 11:46:29 AM »
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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