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Schriftsteller, Maler, Komponist, Philologe, "Erewon Revisited", "Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont" (England, 1835 - 1902).

Samuel Butler · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Samuel Butler wäre heute 188 Jahre, 10 Monate, 3 Tage oder 68.974 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1835 in Langar/Nottinghamshire
Gestorben am 18.06.1902 in London
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• 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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• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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• Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

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• Money is the symbol of duty. It is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted.

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• Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

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• Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

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• Our ideas. They are for the most part like bad sixpences and we spend our lives in trying to pass them on one another.

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

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• Pleasure after all is a safer guide than either right or duty.

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• Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.

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• The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

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• The foundations of morality are like all other foundations: If you dig too much about them the superstructure will come tumbling down.

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• The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.

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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

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• The most important service rendered by the press is that of educatiing people to approach printed matter with distrust.

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• The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

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• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

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