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The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
The Notebooks of Samuel Butler | SAMUEL BUTLER
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British author Samuel Butler is today best remembered for his utopian novel Erewhon. However, Butler had a voracious intellect and wide-ranging interests that were not always reflected in his fiction. This volume reproduces some of the eclectic entries Butler made in his personal journals over a series of years.
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“He that is able to express no sense at all in several languages,
Will pass for learneder than he that's known
To speak the strongest reason in his own.“
- Samuel Butler

William Hazlitt quotes Butler in the epigraph to his essay, “On the Ignorance of the Learned“. I've added a completely random picture of a man talking Latin gibberish in a confident manner. No idea who he is. Looks like a 🔔🔚 though.

IriDas 😂 4d
bibliothecarivs Michael, your use of emojis is masterful! 4d
CarolynM 🤣🤣🤣 4d
Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs I try my best 😌 1d
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

#booksandtea

Bookwomble Obviously, this means I have a house full of chained spirits 😱👻 More reason to get through that TBR pile! 📚📚📚 7y
saresmoore Hahaha! This is making me rethink the bookcase I have in my bedroom. 7y
Bookwomble @saresmoore Hang some garlic wreaths and you'll be fine! 7y
Trashcanman I love this. 7y
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