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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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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