Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Quote by Samuel Butler
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
- The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
- Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
- Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
- There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
- All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
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