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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Culture
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Other Quotes from
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1856 January 5th

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Nature

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. – Max Beerbohm

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Nature

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. Theres something very powerful about finding snow in summer. – Andy Goldsworthy

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Nature

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People said that man had changed: the weakness of people’s health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true? – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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Fasting

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Friendship

Economically, its more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. – Ang Lee

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Change

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson

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Presidents Day