Maxioms by Samuel Butler
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.
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.
And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,
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For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious,
To smatter French is meritorious.
- Samuel Butler (1),
