Samuel Butler: To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights — Samuel Butler

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

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