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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
Butler
Samuel
I didn't do it! Nobody saw me do it! Can't prove anything!
Butler
Samuel
The most common given name in the world is Mohammad; the most common
family name in the world is Chang. Can you imagine the enormous number
of people in the world named Mohammad Chang?
Butler
Samuel
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
Butler
Samuel
When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
Butler
Samuel
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
Butler
Samuel
"There was an interesting development in the CBS-Westmoreland trial:
both sides agreed that after the trial, Andy Rooney would be allowed to
talk to the jury for three minutes about little things that annoyed him
during the trial."
Butler Samuel
I remember once being on a station platform in Cleveland at four in the
morning. A black porter was carrying my bags, and as we were waiting for
the train to come in, he said to me: "Excuse me, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to
invade your privacy, but I hSamuel Butler
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The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of h
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