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Samuel Butler | religion

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

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Samuel Butler | power

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’

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Samuel Butler | power

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

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Nature Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler | nature

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

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Nature Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler | nature

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.

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music Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler | music

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

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music Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler | music

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

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music Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler | music

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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Samuel Butler | morning

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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Samuel Butler | money

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

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