“Butler, of course, is sub-human.”
Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
Evelyn Waugh to Ann Fleming (18 July 1963), Mark Amory (ed.), The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), p. 610.
“Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.”
— P.G. Wodehouse, book Pigs Have Wings
Pigs Have Wings (1952)
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