Samuel Butler Quotes About Funny
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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