About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...
More quotations from Samuel Butler
To live is like to love—all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.
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