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 I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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en If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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en Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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en Most of those who call themselves artists are in reality picture dealers, only they make the pictures themselves.
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en One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
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en Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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en Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.
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en People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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en And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn
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en When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why
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en Such as do build their faith upon, The holy text of pike and gun
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en In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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en Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from
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en A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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en Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.
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