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«If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes»
«Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.»
«One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground»
Author: Samuel Butler
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Ancestry
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ancestry, proud of, turnip, turnips, underground
«Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain»
«Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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be on, Bona, bona fide, FIDE, rough-and-tumble, tumble, tumbled, tumbles, tumbling
«There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour»
«Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.»
«The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.»
«Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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paint a picture
«For every why he had a wherefore»
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