Samuel Butler
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"Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know."
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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“Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.”
— Samuel Butler (1835-1902)