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| Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler | |
| The course of true anything never does run smooth. -- Samuel Butler | |
| God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. -- Samuel Butler | |
| A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. -- Samuel Butler | |
| All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" | |
| Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well. -- Samuel Butler | |
| Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) | |
| Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. -- Samuel Butler | |
