Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951…

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Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks
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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. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition, p.12 … ▶
Life is one long process of getting tired. ✨ Notebooks (1912) ch. 1
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes an … ▶
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.4367, Delphi Classics
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-books of Sa … ▶

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