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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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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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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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. – André Gide, Journals, 1894

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