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“ ”I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it.
About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.
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Additional quotes by Samuel Butler
Friendship is like Money; easier made than kept.
Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.