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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 skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Ay me! what perils do environ / The man that meddles with cold iron!

Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.

The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust

Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of

Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last

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