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Quotes from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler

1835–1902 England

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It is with philosophy as with just intonation on a piano, if you get everything quite straight and on all fours in one department, in perfect tune, it is delightful so long as you keep well in the middle of the key; but as soon as you modulate you find the new key is out of tune and the more remotely you modulate the more out of tune you get.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.