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William Allen Butler was an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires.

✵ 20. February 1825 – 9. September 1902
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William Allen Butler Quotes

“Really and truly—I’ve nothing to wear.”

William Allen Butler

Nothing to Wear (1857), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th ed. (1919).

“No record of her high descent
There needs, nor memory of her name;
Enough that Raphael’s colors blent
To give her features deathless fame.”

William Allen Butler

Incognita of Raphael, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th ed. (1919).

Color , Memory

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