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 tact that is golden, not silence.
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en Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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en Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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en Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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en Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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en Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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en It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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en When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.
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en If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world's.
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en There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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en Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
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en A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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en Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use
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en To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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en Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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