I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. - Samuel Butler

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science.

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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As a general rule philosophy is like stirring mud or not letting a sleeping dog lie. It is an attempt to deny, circumvent or otherwise escape from the consequences of the interlacing of the roots of things with one another.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.

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