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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the s

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – 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

Category:
Alcohol/Alcoholism
Author
Samuel Butler
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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Writing
Author
Samuel Butler
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Understanding
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. – Attributed to George Carlin

Category:
Death

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. – Donna Shalala

Category:
Death

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. – Robert Bolt

Category:
Death

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

Humor is a rubber sword – it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. – Mary Hirsch

Category:
Humor

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey

Category:
Science

Hope is the dream of a waking man. – Aristotle

Category:
Hope

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Persuasion