Quote by Samuel Butler
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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Art
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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God
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I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyones got their own definition. – Eric Clapton

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Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know were open for business. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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Work is our business; its success is God s. – Proverb

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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. – Samuel Adams

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