https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:57:45 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/butler-samuel/15527/ https://wist.info/butler-samuel/15527/#respond Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:27:13 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=15527 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and to make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing.

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
Letter to Miss E. M. A. Savage (21 Nov 1884)

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