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

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

Characters, Truest

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, Be Grateful

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, Always, Anything Else

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

Nature, Lightning

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

Amount, Longest, Smallest

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Samuel Butler

Dying, Circumstances, Either

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

Good Company, Doing, Always

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

May, Will, Pleasure

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

Life, Art, Premises

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

Nature, Law, First Law

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Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Tired, Process, Getting

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Argument, Sarcasm, Neither

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

Chance, Lucky, Expect

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, Better, Never

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

Remembered, Side, Books

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. Samuel Butler

Reason, Always, Far

Be virtuous and you will be vicious. Samuel Butler

Will, Vicious, Virtuous

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler

Sword, Like, Perish

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

Bad, Christian Religion

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. Samuel Butler

Learn, Doing, Rough

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler

Mistake, View, Always

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. Samuel Butler

Now, Last, Conceived

Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. Samuel Butler

May, Same, Same Thing

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

Silence, Golden, Tact

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. Samuel Butler

Sense Of Humor, Will, Own

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

Experience, Violin, Public

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