Samuel Butler föddes den 8 Dezember1835 och dog den 18 Juni 1902 - English writer
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue
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.
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence
It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all
It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
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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