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Samuel Butler   /sˈæmjul bˈətlər/   Listen
Samuel Butler

noun
1.
English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902).  Synonym: Butler.
2.
English poet (1612-1680).  Synonym: Butler.






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"Samuel Butler" Quotes from Famous Books



... Johnson was a great wit. (For Johnson, substitute, if you wish, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Samuel Butler, Alexander Pope, Charles Lamb, Sidney Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller

... will ask me why, if this be so, our false education does not provoke our scholars to find out the truth. My answer is that it sometimes does. Voltaire was a pupil of the Jesuits; Samuel Butler was the pupil of a hopelessly conventional and erroneous country parson. But then Voltaire was Voltaire, and Butler was Butler: that is, their minds were so abnormally strong that they could throw off the doses of poison that paralyse ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... Streatfeild, Mr. Henry Festing Jones, and Mr. A.C. Fifield, the publisher, for permission to make use of "The Note Books of Samuel Butler." ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie



Words linked to "Samuel Butler" :   poet, writer, author



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