More from Samuel Butler
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims that he intends to eat until he eats them.
- To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season-delightful if it happen to be a favoured one, but in practice very rarelyfavoured and more remarkable, as a general rule, for biting east winds than genial breezes.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
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