366 ordspråk av Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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en Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
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en An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the
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en Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
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en The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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en The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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en There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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en It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all
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en A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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en Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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en Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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en When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once
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en Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
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en All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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en The only things we hate, are the unfamiliar things
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en To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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