Maxioms by Samuel Butler
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
This was the penn'worth of his thought.
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
He that is down can fall no lower.
He that is down can fall no lower.
The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with read more
The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lustrations
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The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,
From doing town or country hurt.
