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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 you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The souls of women are so small, That some believe they've none at all

Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it

Birds are taken with pipes that imitate their own voices, and men with those sayings that are most agreeable to their own opinions

The history of art is the history of revivals

Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him

Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty

Nothing is well done nor worth doing unless, take it all round, it has come pretty easily

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him

When I was there I found their jokes, like their roads - very long and not very good, leading to a little tin point of a spire which has been remorselessly obvious for miles without seeming to get any nearer

We think as we do, mainly because other people think so

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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