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Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902)
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Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.



Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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