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Samuel Butler
(1612 - 1680 / England)

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Poet and satirist; born at Strensham in Worcestershire and educated at the King's School, Worcester. He then went to work as a secretary to Thomas Jefferey at Earl's Croom, near to Upton-upon-Severn. He took up painting and there are two portraits attributed to him in the nearby rectory. Charl .. .. more >>

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"When civil fury first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why;
When hard words, jealousies, and fears,
Set folks together by the ears,
And made them fight, like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion, as for punk;"
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), British poet. Hudibras (l. 1-6). OxBoLi. Everyman's Book of English Verse. John Wain, ed. (1981) J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.

"God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 295, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

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Samuel Butler (novelist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the 19th-century novelist, author of Erewhon. For the 17th-century poet, author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler (poet). ...
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Samuel Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680), author of Hudibras; Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, ...
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Samuel Butler was the second child and first son of Thomas Butler (1806-86) and Fanny (neé Worsley, d.1873), born on 4 December 1835 at Langar Rectory in ...
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Read the works of Samuel Butler online at The Literature Page ... Samuel Butler, In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir; All progress is based upon a ...
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