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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

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Virtue
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Samuel Butler
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Nature
category

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. – Richard Russo

Category:
Nature

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. – Arthur Keith

Category:
Nature

I dont think Ill ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. Its not in my nature. – Ricky Williams

Category:
Nature

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancers body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. – Martha Graham

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Nature

Random Quotes

My attitude is, if someones going to criticize me, tell me to my face. – Simon Cowell

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Attitude

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss. – Anthony Liccione

Category:
Thinking

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. – Voltaire

Category:
Beauty

But I do think its important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. – China Mieville

Category:
Wisdom