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...
More quotations from Samuel Butler
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.