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Humorous Quotations
Issue #64
October 04, 2003

Hi Friends,

"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

Ironically, my page which carried that quote was full
of inaccuracies. It was so inaccurate that it had
attributed the quote to the wrong Samuel Butler.
It used to read, before I corrected it yesterday,
Samuel Butler - English Poet, 1612-1680.
Well, there WAS a Samuel Butler who was poet in
the 17th century, but most quotes attributed to
Samuel Butler on the net (and most of the ones in
this issue) are not his but of the 19th century Satirist.
This week we visit both the Samuel Butlers...

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man
of some sense to know how to lie well."

"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that
one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."


Samuel Butler - The Poet
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Sometimes called Hudibras Butler to distinguish him from
his 19th Century secret sharer, who wrote Erewhon and
The Way of All Flesh
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/butlerhu.htm

Samuel Butler - The Satirist
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A brief biOgraphy.
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/butler.html

Humorous Quotes of Samuel Butler - Jest for Pun
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Your wz-ard's choice.
http://workinghumor.com/quotes/samuel_butler.shtml


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To wind up this issue...

"For he cou'd coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit:"
~ Hudibras, Canto I

;o)

Gunjan
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