British - Poet | December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
CleverLikeBore
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
GoodnessTrueWhich
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
GodPastBeenGods
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
PeopleCircleNowTryIrishNation
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
ManFightingKnowFirstLeaveOff
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
YouWillVirtuousVicious
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
GreatMistakeViewPoint Of View
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
ArtMoneyWarLiteratureLikeThose
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
GodManPresentDevelopmentHe
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
TimeStyleNeverSamePainsKnew
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
ClothesWantMindsOurMuchBodies
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