Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.Samuel Butler
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Butler
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.
Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel Butler
Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.
Samuel Butler
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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