Samuel Butler: After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurat

After having spent years striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in — 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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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and — Samuel Butler
Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. An — Samuel Butler
It is said of money that it is more easily made than kept and this is true of ma — Samuel Butler
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. — Samuel Butler
To teach is to learn. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
學而時習之、不亦說乎。有朋自遠方來、不亦樂乎。人不知而不慍、不亦君子乎。 — Confucius
Vous tenez à l’exemple . Pourquoi? Pour ce qu’il enseigne. Que voulez-vous ensei — Victor Hugo
It is good to live and learn. — Miguel de Cervantes
“If you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent — Marcus Aurelius
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the worl — Arthur Schopenhauer
You can take better care of your secret than another can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. — George Orwell