Getting back in little routines create a great deal of safety so just getting up in the morning and packing their backpack, coming to the same place, seeing the same people.


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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is a...
SAMUEL BUTLER
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t...
SAMUEL BUTLER
For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER
To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER