Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.Samuel Butler
Love is a boy by poets styl'd Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
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The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.
Samuel Butler
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
Samuel Butler
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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