Samuel Butler (British - Poet)
December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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