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  • Smatterers
    All smatterers are more brisk and pert
    Than those that understand an art;
    As little sparkles shine more bright
    Than glowing coals, that give them light....
  • Hypocrisy
    Hypocrisy will serve as well
    To propagate a church, as zeal;
    As persecution and promotion
    Do equally advance devotion: ...
  • Religion Of Hudibras, The
    For his religion it was fit
    To match his learning and his wit:
    'Twas Presbyterian true blue;
    For he was of that stubborn crew ...
  • Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto I
    THE ARGUMENT

    The Knight and Squire resolve, at once,
    The one the other to renounce. ...
  • Hudibras: Part 1 - Canto Iii
    THE ARGUMENT

    The scatter'd rout return and rally,
    Surround the place; the Knight does sally, ...
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Philip_d_conrad: life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. (samuel butler)
Fallgesetz: if you look at dickens, hardy, james, samuel butler, you will not see the word 'personality' because it didn't exist in the 19th century
Kayleecrews26: “doubtless the pleasure is as great of being cheated as to cheat.” –samuel butler
Technophobiaorg: in 1863 samuel butler called to end tech progress to save humanity from dystopia. since then child mortality rates went from 25% to 3% creating a less dystopian world. the dangers of slowing technological progress is only obvious in hindsight.
Natastarforever: my name is nata. and it's time to share something more. ©️ every man`s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. samuel butler
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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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