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"And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science."
--- Samuel Butler
#Creeds #Comparison #Science
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
--- Samuel Butler
#Young Man #Oxford #Too Busy
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
--- Samuel Butler
#Life #Social Progress #Progress
"Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order."
--- Samuel Butler
#Lasts #Enemy #Money
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
--- Samuel Butler
#Violinist #Solo #Life Well Lived
"To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty."
--- Samuel Butler
#Cruelty #Compassion #Beauty
"Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure."
--- Samuel Butler
#Overexposure #Cold Heart #Cold
"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
--- Samuel Butler
#People #Lasts #Humorous
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."
--- Samuel Butler
#Reason And Logic #Logic #Appeals
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
--- Samuel Butler
#Bores #Bores You #Men
"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
--- Samuel Butler
#Success #Sympathy For Loss #Animal
"When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
--- Samuel Butler
#Dies #Things To Do #Decent
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
--- Samuel Butler
#Fear #Taken #Life
"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
--- Samuel Butler
#People #Doubted #Christianity
"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?""
--- Samuel Butler
#Writing #Tests #Inscriptions
"It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents."
--- Samuel Butler
#Pregnancy #Respectable #Offspring
"Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing."
--- Samuel Butler
#Trifles #Impossible #Fall
"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."
--- Samuel Butler
#Sin #Chastity #Bad Temper
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."
--- Samuel Butler
#Advantage #Lays #Oneself
"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
--- Samuel Butler
#Headache #Religion #Drunkenness
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
--- Samuel Butler
#Common Sense #Voice #Common
"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."
--- Samuel Butler
#Life Worth Living #Life #History
"Nobody shoots at Santa Claus."
--- Samuel Butler
#Santa #Santa Claus
"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."
--- Samuel Butler
#Judged #Criminals #Benefits
"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."
--- Samuel Butler
#Lawyer #Law #In-laws
"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
--- Samuel Butler
#Legislature #Humans And Animals #Animal
"If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success."
--- Samuel Butler
#Saved #Dies #Being Bored
"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."
--- Samuel Butler
#Neighbour #Should #Worst
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
--- Samuel Butler
#Book #Soul #Shelves
"Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance."
--- Samuel Butler
#Religion #Belief #Resistance
"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
--- Samuel Butler
#Idleness #Sin #Men
"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
--- Samuel Butler
#Silence #Programming #Golden
"Let man be true and every god a liar."
--- Samuel Butler
#Every Man #Men #Being True
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
--- Samuel Butler
#Christianity #Faith #Littles
"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."
--- Samuel Butler
#Metaphysics #Mind #Doe

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