Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
More Quotes from Samuel Butler:
Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.Samuel Butler
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth O God O Montreal.
Samuel Butler
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler
I'll make the fur Fly round the ears of the old cur.
Samuel Butler
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
Samuel Butler
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