Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem entitled Hudibras .
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. Go to Quote / Comment
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Go to Quote / Comment
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. Go to Quote / Comment
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. Go to Quote / Comment
I have been told lately that Fuseli was travelling by coach and a gentleman opposite him said: "I understand, Mr. Fuseli, that you are a paint... Go to Quote / Comment