More quotes by Samuel Butler
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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