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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

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!

I'll make the fur / Fly round the ears of the old cur.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

The money men make lives after them.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Genius is a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble.

Virgil was no good because Tennyson ran him, and as for Tennyson - well, Tennyson goes without saying.

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