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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. - Samuel Butler

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Samuel Butler
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Loss
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Samuel Butler
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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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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Nature
category

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Nature

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

Category:
Nature

I think its a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, youll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. – Cass Sunstein

Category:
Nature

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. – Marie Curie

Category:
Nature

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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. – Orison Swett Marden

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Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone elses hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right. – David Carradine

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. РPaul Val̩ry, Mauvaises pens̩es et autres, 1942

Category:
Curmudgeonesque

When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake. – Deng Ming-Dao

Category:
Divorce