369 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 It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.
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en Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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en Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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en Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with
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en They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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en If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue
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en A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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en Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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en An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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en If old Pontifex had had Cromwell's chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better; if he had had Giotto's chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse; as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I wi
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en The want of money is the root of all evil.
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en It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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en Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending
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en Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
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en Youth is like spring, an overpraised season
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