Quote by Samuel Butler
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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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