Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.


Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss E. M. A. Savage 1871–1885 (1935) 21 November 1884


It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.