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After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate. - Samuel Butler
" "After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate.
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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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Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
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