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Samuel Butler

  • Katrinahas quotedlast year
    The death of Hector.
  • orosasnsfhas quoted10 months ago
    Achilles son of Peleus
  • A2337768has quotedlast year
    "we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough either in painting, music or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    for aught I care, you may go to the lowest depths beneath earth and sea, where Iapetus and Saturn dwell in lone Tartarus with neither ray of light nor breath of wind to cheer them. You may go on and on till you get there, and I shall not care one whit for your displeasure; you are the greatest vixen living."
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    He was alone with Patroclus, who sat opposite to him and said nothing, waiting till he should cease singing.
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    death deals like measure to him who works and him who is idle
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    on whom Jove has laid labour and sorrow so long as there is breath in my body and my limbs carry me
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    The stars have gone forward, two-thirds of the night are already spent, and the third is alone left us.
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    He called from the ship to his comrade Patroclus, who heard him in the tent and came out looking like Mars himself
  • Marhas quoted2 years ago
    I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so, but death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads
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