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As the ancients Say wisely, have a care o’ th’ main chance, And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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Beside, ’tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak: 2 That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird ’tis to whistle.
Brevity is very good, / When we are, or are not understood.
Cleric before, and Lay behind; A lawless linsey-woolsey brother, Half of one order, half another.
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it
Cowards never use their might, / But against such as will not fight.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it—torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
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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.