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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.