The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to… - Samuel Butler

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The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.

God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. - Samuel Butler

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