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Samuel Butler

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poet and satirist (1612–1680)

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Samuel Butler was a poet and author. His literary output included 175 works, with five of these listed in Crossref records. He is associated with several notable quotes, including the observation that “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” Another quote describes a hen as “only an egg's way of making another egg.”

Biographical data for Samuel Butler presents conflicting dates. One record indicates a birth date of 1612-02-03 and a death date of 1680-09-25. A separate entry lists a birth date of 1835-12-04 and a death date of 1902-06-18. MusicBrainz identifies him as a person from the US. His name appears in 141 other encyclopedia articles, and he has 54 listeners with a total playcount of 560 on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1835-12-04
Died
1902-06-18
Works
175

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1939-12-08
Active to
2025-02-20

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
54
Total plays
560

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Samuel+Butler">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Samuel Butler

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,863x

  2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,832x

  3. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

    · 2005 · cited 18,708x

  4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,938x

  5. Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data

    · 2019 · cited 15,280x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”
  • “A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
  • “Stowed away in a Montreal lumber roomThe Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall;Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught,Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth:O God! O Montreal!”
  • “The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar — He has neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs.”
  • “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
  • “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Born
baptized 14 February 1613, Strensham , Worcestershire , England
Died
25 September 1680 (aged 67), London , England
Notable work
Hudibras (1663–1678)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samuel Butler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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