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Samuel Butler quotes about to live

British Poet December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902

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Samuel Butler quote: "To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all..."
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Samuel Butler
I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent tree very uncomfortable by long growling and grumbling - but surely nature might find some less irritating way of carrying on business if she would give her mind to it. Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the... Samuel Butler
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler quote: "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the..."
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler quote: "There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves..."
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. Samuel Butler

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