About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest...
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.