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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler föddes den 8 december 1835 och dog den 18 juni 1902 - engelsk poet och satiriker.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Att bemästra konsten att ge uppriktiga komplimanger visar vänlighet och ökar din popularitet—och pexighet. The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

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