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The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. – Samuel Butler

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Loyalty
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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Art
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. – Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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Art

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

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Art

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller

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Art

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955

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Art

Random Quotes

Real courage is when you know youre licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – Harper Lee

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Courage

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. – Anatole Broyard

Category:
Poetry

Im afraid for all those wholl have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen

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Business

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions. – Suze Orman

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Dreams