Quote by Samuel Butler
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. - S

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

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Science
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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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architecture
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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Only the dead have seen the end of the war. – George Santayana

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell

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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. – Charles de Montesquieu

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