Quote by Samuel Butler
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they woul

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Medical
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An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. – Samuel Butler

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Ideas
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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Money
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. – Warren Buffett

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Money

Id have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. – Paulo Coelho

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Money

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. Ive always been a size 14 to 16, I dont care about clothes, Id rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. – Adele

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Money

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Money

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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. – Roy Lichtenstein

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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. – Gaston Caperton

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