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Sentence count:213+55Posted:2016-07-15Updated:2026-10-12
Synonym: just, merely, only, simply. Similar words: bat, bet, bug, butt, buy, cut, gut, nut. Meaning: [bʌt;bət]  adv. and nothing more. 
91) You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. 
92) In a great river great fish are found; but take heed lest you be drowned. 
93) Honesty may be dear bought; but can never be an ill pennyworth. 
94) The soul is not where it lives, but it loves. 
95) The wolf may lose his teeth, but never his nature. 
96) You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.http://sentencedict.com/but.html 
97) There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging. 
98) Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. 
99) We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish 19it at leisure20. 
100) The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. 
101) A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. 
102) A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. 
103) We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours. 
104) The brave man hazards his life, but not his conscience. 
105) There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. 
106) To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work, work. 
107) A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity. 
108) You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. 
109) Money will buy a pretty dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. 
110) You may force a man to shut his eyes, but you cannot make him sleep. 
111) In the election of a wife, as in a project of war, to err but once is to be undone for ever. 
112) Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen. 
113) Men and women use their brains differently, but that their brains may actually be designed differently. 
114) Really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law a -gainst insaity. 
115) There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. 
116) Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. 
117) Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it. 
118) What do you expect from a pig but a grunt? 
119) It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything. 
120) Money is neither good nor bad, but all depends on what use is made of it. 
More similar words: bat, bet, bug, butt, buy, cut, gut, nut, out, put, auto, bad, ban, bar, bay, be, beg, belt, best, bid, big, boat, bolt, boot, both, bow, boy, buck, bulb, bulk. 
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