British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler
LoveBestEasyDoneForgiveUs
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
HateMindLyingInaccuracy
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
DoubtDeadLikeCriminalsBenefit
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
FeelingCountryMoralityPeers
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
MedicalBaptismKnowMoreSacrament
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
FriendshipMoneyLikeEasierMade
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
ManAnimalOnlyStateLegislature
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
LifeWomenMoneyDemandYourBoth
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
FaithYouNothingWithoutLittle
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
BetterPointTemperControversyMost
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
ManToneTemperHimselfWonWhich
The want of money is the root of all evil.
MoneyEvilWantRoot
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