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«It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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root
«The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.»
«Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
Anything Else, architecture, literature, pictures, portrait
«Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way.»
«Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes»
«Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers»
Author: Samuel Butler
| About:
Morality
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current, custom, One Country, peering, peers, The Current
«Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name»
«The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.»
«You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.»
«It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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controversy, dispute, exact, gains, good-tempered, good temper, in dispute, scores, shown, temper
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