Samuel Butler: This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.”

This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.” — Samuel Butler

This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.”

Samuel Butler

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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. — Samuel Butler

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We have seen better days. — William Shakespeare

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. — Miguel de Cervantes

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmise — Emily Dickinson

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is. — Oscar Wilde

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one’s toes on — Émile Zola

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. — Alfred Tennyson

Time makes me stronger Well, there's nothing more to say. — Song

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's — Oscar Wilde