Samuel Butler: The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For t — Samuel Butler

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

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