Samuel Butler: are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them.

are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them. — Samuel Butler

are like shadows — substantial enough until we try to grasp them.

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. — Samuel Butler
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season. — Samuel Butler
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but acco — Samuel Butler
To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights — Samuel Butler
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidde — Swami Vivekananda
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life. — Rabindranath Tagore
Hélas! les vices de l’homme, si pleins d’horreur qu’on les suppose, contiennent — Charles Baudelaire
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Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else. — Mark Twain
Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied. — Napoleon
Till the corn be ground with the mill, how can our table be furnished with bread — Rumi
When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our prid — Anton Chekhov