Quotes By Author: samuel butler

“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one’s own, but one does not like anyone else’s.”

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Tag: metaphysics, poetry, solipsism,
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“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”

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Tag: happiness,
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“Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.”

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Tag: atheist, god, noremorse, prayer, satanism,
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