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

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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Opinion
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. – Xun Zi

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Nature

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nature

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in mans moral nature. – Thorstein Veblen

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Nature

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy

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Nature

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. – Paul Tournier

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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity. – Thomas Aquinas

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Whats fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and its crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful. – Tony Hale

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Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. – Dandemis

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