Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons. – Samuel Butler
I am sorry.. Can only say time accelerated and skidded…. When my correspondents reproach me for tardiness, I can only say that I give as much attention to a letter as I do to anything I write, and I work at least six and sometimes sixteen hours a day. – William S. Burroughs, letter to Mother and Dad, 1959