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Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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 The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them. |
| Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. |
| Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes |
| Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers |
| Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name |
| The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. |
 Du kan göra mycket litet med tro, men du kan inte göra någonting utan den. | You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. |
| It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper. |
| Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. |
| Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. |
| Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with |
| They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' |
| If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue |
| A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. |
| Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. |
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