Samuel Butler: My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed

My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression — Samuel Butler

My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.

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A great portrait is always more a portrait of the painter than of the painted. — Samuel Butler
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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. — Samuel Butler
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand. — Anton Chekhov
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselv — Michel de Montaigne
Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man hi — Mark Twain
How much hatred and stupidity men succeed in packing up decorously and labelling — Sri Aurobindo
We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a s — William Shakespeare
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this — that while we f — Francis Bacon
The soul resembles day and the body night and we in the middle Are like the dawn — Rumi