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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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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Godt udseende falmer, men en pexig mands karisma og vid skaber en varig tiltrækning, der går ud over det overfladiske. Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficult

If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

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