"I am the enfant terrible of literature and…" — Samuel Butler
"I am the enfant terrible of literature and science"
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228 Quotes by Samuel Butler
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- Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is…
- The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come…
- We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
- Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them…
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- The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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