I'm not the type of guy that needs to be in the spotlight and sometimes I used it as motivation. Those guys are great and I'd like to do what they do. I just felt that, when I get my chance, I'd be able to do some things that they do.


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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
SAMUEL BUTLER
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. A...
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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more s...
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Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ...
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
SAMUEL BUTLER
When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through eithe...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religi...
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind ...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to ap...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it b...
SAMUEL BUTLER
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fightin...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Logic is like the sword
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond it...
SAMUEL BUTLER
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER
The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
SAMUEL BUTLER
A hen is only a egg's way of making another egg.
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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ...
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER