Quote by Samuel Butler
A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler

A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. – Samuel Butler

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Compared to America or Europe, God isnt a big part of our lives here. I dont know anyone here who goes to church when hes had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead. – Bjork

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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