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Life is a matter about which we are lost if we reason either too much or too little.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.
| Samuel Butler | 
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Philosophy as a general rule is like the stirring mud or not letting a sleeping dog lie.
| Samuel Butler | 
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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 | 
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The obstinate man does not hold opinions, they hold him.
| Samuel Butler | 
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, pride and arrogance.
| Samuel Butler | 
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