Charles Gogin (died 1931) – National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 1599
Samuel Butler – English Author (1835-1902)
Samuel Butler was a known iconoclastic Victorian author, which means that he was someone who attacked cherished beliefs and the establishment. 😉
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Here are some of the quotes of the radical Samuel Butler:
A hen is only an egg’s way of making other eggs.
-Samuel Butler
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
– Samuel Butler
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.
– Samuel Butler
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A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
– Samuel Butler
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
– Samuel Butler
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
– Samuel Butler
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
– Samuel Butler
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.
– Samuel Butler
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I can generally bear the separation, but I don’t like the leave-taking.
– Samuel Butler
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It is hard to come down the social ladder without tumbling off.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
– Samuel Butler
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
– Samuel Butler
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MAN is supreme lord and master
Of his own ruin and disaster,
Controls his fate, but nothing less
In ordering his own happiness:
For all his care and providence
Is too feeble a defence
To render it secure and certain
Against the injuries of Fortune;
And oft, in spite of all his wit,
Is lost by one unlucky hit,
And ruined with a circumstance,
And mere punctilio of a chance.
~ Butler
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The gods are those who either have money or do not want it.
– Samuel Butler
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
– Samuel Butler
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The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right place.
– Samuel Butler
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
– Samuel Butler
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
– Samuel Butler
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When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither lawful or quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
– Samuel Butler
Sandwich is named after the Earl of Sandwich who used to ask his servants to bring him meat placed between two slices of bread. He needed the quick and convenient meal to sustain him during gambling through the late nights.