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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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Food
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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Writing

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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Writing

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Writing

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Writing

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I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I cant wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband. – Julianna Margulies

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amazing

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool. – Craig Bruce

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power

Poetry is not always words. – Terri Guillemets, “Moonglow over the mountain,” 1991

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Poetry

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought. – Bernard Baruch

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Thought