Samuel Butler

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.

For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
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He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.

Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:
Some kick'd read more

Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.