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Samuel Butler on Business

1835–1902 England

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3 quotes

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The Way of All Flesh (1903)

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Samuel Butler's Notebooks (1951)

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.