Samuel Butler
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born
December 04, 1835
died
June 18, 1902
gender
male
place of birth
Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism . Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
— Samuel Butler
— Samuel Butler
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"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too."
— Samuel Butler
— Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
— Samuel Butler
— Samuel Butler
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