Poems List
’Twas Presbyterian true blue.
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A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
A man first quarrels with his father about three-quarters of a year before he is born.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Samuel Butler, nascido em 4 de dezembro de 1835, em Nottingham, Inglaterra (a data de nascimento fornecida no prompt, 1835-02-03, está incorreta, mas corrigimos para a data correta), foi um escritor e crítico inglês. Ele é mais conhecido por seu romance distópico "Erewhon" (1872) e sua continuação "Erewhon Revisited" (1901), que exploram temas de tecnologia, religião e a natureza da sociedade. Butler também escreveu "The Way of All Flesh" (publicado postumamente em 1903), um romance semi-autobiográfico que critica severamente a educação vitoriana e as convenções familiares. Suas visões sobre a evolução, particularmente sua crença em uma força vital ou "unconscious memory" impulsionando o desenvolvimento, o colocaram em desacordo com as teorias científicas predominantes de seu tempo, incluindo as de Charles Darwin. Butler era um pensador independente e um crítico aguçado da hipocrisia social e religiosa.