We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Samuel ButlerPrayers are to men as dolls are to children.
Samuel ButlerWe all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel ButlerMots clés love forgiveness
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel ButlerWords are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel ButlerPeople in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Samuel ButlerAn apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel ButlerTo himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.
Samuel ButlerSensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
Samuel ButlerMots clés life existence living dying sensible lifetime
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy - very unhappy - it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.
To parents who wish to lead a quiet life I would say: Tell your children that they are naughty - much naughtier than most children. Point to the young people of some acquaintances as models of perfection and impress your own children with a deep sense of their own inferiority. You carry so many more guns than they do that they cannot fight you. This is called moral influence, and it will enable you to bounce them as much as you please. They think you know and they will not have yet caught you lying often enough to suspect that you are not the unworldly and scrupulously truthful person which you represent yourself to be; nor yet will they know how great a coward you are, nor how soon you will run away if they fight you with persistency and judgment. You keep the dice and throw them both for your children and yourself. Load them then, for you can easily manage to stop your children from examining them. Tell them how singularly indulgent you are; insist on the incalculable benefit you conferred upon them, firstly in bringing them into the world at all, but more particularly in bringing them into it as your own children rather than anyone else's... You hold all the trump cards, or if you do not you can filch them; if you play them with anything like judgment you will find yourselves heads of happy, united, God-fearing families... True, your children will probably find out all about it some day, but not until too late to be of much service to them or inconvenience to yourself.
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