A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.Samuel Butler
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
Samuel Butler
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
Samuel Butler
These reasons made his mouth to water.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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The greatest saints and sinners have been made The proselytes of one anothers trade.
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