Quote by Samuel Butler
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a

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. – Samuel Butler

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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