Samuel Butler (poet) - Side Quotes

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He was in LOGIC a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks Committee-men and Trustees.

Samuel Butler

He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side, On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute.

Samuel Butler

For Justice, though she's painted blind,
Is to the weaker side inclined.

Samuel Butler