Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

Samuel Butler

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

Samuel Butler

Mots clés poetry metaphysics solipsism

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

Mots clés life

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

Samuel Butler

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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Samuel Butler

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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Samuel Butler

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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

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Nao só nada é bom ou mau, mas é o pensamento que o faz assim, como também nada é absolutamente, excepto na medida em que o pensamento o faz assim.

Samuel Butler

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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Mots clés life

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