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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

• The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

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• The souls of women are so small, / That some believe they've none at all.

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

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• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

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• The world will always be governed by self-interest: we should not try to stop this: we should try and make the self-interest of cads a little more coincident with that of decent people.

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

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• There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

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• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth.

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• There's but a twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war.

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• Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she followed him.

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• To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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• Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

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• We have all sinned and come short of the glory of making ourselves as comfortable as we easily might have done.

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• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with othes.

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• Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again Where dead men meet, on lips of living men.

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• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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• 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.

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• Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.

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