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 Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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en When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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en God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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en All truth is not to be told at all times.
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en The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust
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en Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallantest feats have been achieved in greatest straits
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en It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of
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en Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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en The course of true anything never does run smooth
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en The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence
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en The body is but a pair of pincers set over bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts
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en Why should not Conscience have a vacation
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en Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate
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en The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day
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en To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it
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