Samuel Butler

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all."	Love
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."	Monarchy
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well."	Honesty, Knowledge, Lies
"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him."	Argument, Conflict, Men
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."	Men, Music, Writing
"For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine."	Honesty, Truth
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."	Friends, Money
"God cannot alter the past, but historians can."	History
"God is Love -- I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!"	Evil, Good, Love
"He that is down can fall no lower."	Miscellaneous
"I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy."	Lies
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."	Desires, Evil, Good
"It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies."	Anger, Desires, Lies
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often."	Change, Doubt, Knowledge
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."	Learning, Life, Men
"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."	Art, Life
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."	Art, Life
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."	Friends, Intentions, Men
"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places."	Age, Sin
"The course of true anything does not run smooth."	Honesty, Truth
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Art	Change	Conflict
Desires	Doubt	Evil
Excellence	Faith	Friends
Good	History	Honesty
Intentions	Knowledge	Learning
Lies	Life	Love
Men	Miscellaneous	Monarchy
Money	Music	Quitting
Sin	Time	Truth
Wants	Wisdom	Writing