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Quote by Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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