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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Butler
"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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