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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Samuel Butler?
→ Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
→ You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
→ Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
→ The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Pick the quote attributed to Samuel Butler.
→ Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
→ Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
→ The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
→ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Select the quotation attributed to Samuel Butler.
→ In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
→ Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
→ Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
→ Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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One of these may be attributed to Samuel Butler. Which one?
→ A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.
→ Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
→ If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
→ Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Which one of these belongs to Samuel Butler?
→ There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.
→ The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
→ When someone has behaved like an animal, he says: "I'm only human!" But when he is treated like an animal, he says: "I'm human, too!"
→ Let language be the divining rod that finds sources of thought.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Samuel Butler?
→ Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
→ It's stifling in here. Please open the windows. Let those outside feel it too.
→ If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.
→ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Samuel Butler.
→ Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
→ Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
→ Once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.
→ The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Samuel Butler. Which one?
→ It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
→ A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
→ A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip: there is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
→ Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Samuel Butler?
→ Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
→ Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
→ It’s silly to think that Presidents are born, because very few people are 35 years old at birth, and those who are won’t admit it.
→ Flowers grow out of dark moments.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Samuel Butler.
→ Believe you can and you're halfway there.
→ The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
→ The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
→ The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Looks like Samuel Butler is the author of one of these.
→ Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
→ Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought a world empty of people just uninterrupted grass and a hare sitting up?
→ Kindness goes a long ways lots o' times when it ought t' stay at home.
→ Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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