I am the <i>enfant terrible</i> of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a sh… - Samuel Butler

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I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

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About Samuel Butler

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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