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«And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn»
«When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why»
Author: Samuel Butler
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dudgeon
«Such as do build their faith upon, The holy text of pike and gun»
«In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.»
«Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from»
Author: Samuel Butler
«A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.»
Author: Samuel Butler
«Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.»
«For he by geometric scale / Could take the size of pots of ale.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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geometric
«He could distinguish, and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. / On either which he would dispute, / Confute, change hands, and still confute.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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change hands, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, dispute, distinguish, South West, TwixT, west side
«The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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