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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Samuel Butler

Life, Nature, Morning, Lightning, Dew

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. - Samuel Butler

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. Samuel Butler

Thankful, Grateful, Mirror, Appearance

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life, Tired, Process, Long, Getting

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. - Samuel Butler

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance, Vanity

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. Samuel Butler

Dog, Great, Yourself, Fool, You, Him

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler

Life, Learning, Experience, Violin, Like

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. Samuel Butler

Romantic, Loved, Better, Lost, Never

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Argument, Sarcasm, Irony, Neither

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

Work, Music, Man, Architecture, Portrait

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler

Life, Art, Drawing, Conclusions

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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. Samuel Butler

Good, People, Enjoy, Good Company, Doing

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. Samuel Butler

People, Chance, Lucky, Expect, Unlucky

It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler

Silence, Golden, Tact

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler

Life, People, Enjoy, Never, Most, Main

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

Family, Health, Money, Religion, Know

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap. Samuel Butler

Look, You, Leap, Reap, Like, Before

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' Samuel Butler

Power, Man, Name, Test, Say, They Say

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler

Friendship, Money, Like, Made, Than

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. Samuel Butler

Good, Knowledge, Art, Good And Evil

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler

Best, Liar, Lying, Way, Go, Who

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler

Nature, Law, First, Self-Preservation

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. Samuel Butler

Virtue, Only, Headache, Would, Precede

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler

Nature, Egg, Way, Only, Making, Hen

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Samuel Butler

Life, Character, Life Is A, Mold, Out

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. Samuel Butler

Sailor, Old, Well, Ancient, Been, Taken

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler

God, Devil, Apology, Remembered, Side

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