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"Brevity is very good, when we are, or are not, understood."
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Samuel Butler was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras.
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"He that is down can fall no lower."
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"With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang."
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"But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease."
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"There s but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war."
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"A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect."
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