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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

Never, Romantic, Better

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

Anything Else, Work, Always

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

Truest, Characters

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

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

Nature, Lightning

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

Experience, Violin, Public

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

Always, Doing, Good Company

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

Life, Art, Premises

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

Amount, Longest, Smallest

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

Would, Precede, Only

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

Before, Like, Reap

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

Sailor, Been, Would

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

First Law, Law, Nature

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

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Process, Getting, Tired

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

Either, Circumstances, Dying

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

The want of money is the root of all evil. Samuel Butler

Money, Want, Root

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. Samuel Butler

Some, Theist, Other

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

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

Never, Life, Most

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

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

Tact, Golden, Silence

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

Mistake, Always, View

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler

Argument, Neither, Sarcasm

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. Samuel Butler

Never, Take, Money

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