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Samuel Butler
British
Poet
Born:
Dec 4
,
1835
Died:
Jun 18
,
1902
God
Life
Man
Money
People
You
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler
Best
Liar
Lying
Way
He
Smallest
Longest
Makes
Go
Who
Amount
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
Life
Tired
Long
Long Process
Getting
Process
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Life
People
Enjoy
Aims
Main
Never
Most
Learned
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
Nature
Way
Only
Another
Making
Egg
Hen
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
Great
You
Fool
Yourself
Dog
Will
Too
Pleasure
Only
Great Pleasure
He
Make
Him
Himself
Scold
May
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
Every
Else
Pictures
Himself
Always
Anything
Anything Else
Whether
Literature
Portrait
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
Nature
Law
First
First Law
Self-Preservation
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
Food
Man
Animal
Eat
Eats
Only
Remain
He
Until
Terms
Friendly
Victims
Them
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
Life
Morning
Lightning
Dew
Human
Flash
Human Life
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
Life
Learning
Experience
Solo
Like
Instrument
Goes
Public
Playing
Violin
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
Life
Art
Drawing
Insufficient
Conclusions
Premises
Sufficient
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
Samuel Butler
People
Sense
Live
Rarely
Atmosphere
Uncommon
Aristocratic
Academic
Reach
Common
Common Sense
Them
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler
Argument
Neither
Irony
Sarcasm
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
God
Better
Impossible
Childish
Define
More
Only
Know
Him
How
Deny
Which
Realize
Should
Ever
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
Hate
Mind
Lying
Inaccuracy
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Samuel Butler
Nobody
Shoots
Santa
Santa Claus
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler
Progress
Live
Every
Part
Beyond
Organism
Income
Based
Innate
Universal
Desire
In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
Samuel Butler
Legal
Law
Nothing
Expense
Certain
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler
God
Devil
Division
Labor
Effort
After
Specialization
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler
Life
Art
Science
Exact
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
Samuel Butler
Truth
Man
Fool
Lie
Sense
Tell
Some
Know
Well
How
Any
Requires
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Myself
Me
Fear
Static
Prevents
Hearing
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
Friendship
Money
Made
Easier
Like
Than
Kept
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Samuel Butler
Good
Evil
Come
Doing
Doing Good
May
Such A Thing
Thing
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler
God
Man
Liar
Be True
Every
True
Every Man
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
Man
Bore
Bored
More
Contemptible
Himself
Than
Who
Even
Lets
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