Samuel Butler's Quote - Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or

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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or

Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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Such as take lodgings in a head thats to be let unfurnished. – Samuel Butler

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Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away. – Samuel Butler

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten? – Samuel Butler

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