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Quotes from Ramblings in Cheapside — Samuel Butler

1835–1902 England

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The limits of the body seem well defined enough as definitions go, but definitions seldom go far.

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

If a man would get hold of the public era, he must pay, marry, or fight.

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

We meet people every day whose bodies are evidently those of men and women long alive but whose appearance we know through their portraits.

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind finger-ends in an overcrowded pocket.

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

By a merciful dispensation of Providence university training is almost as costly as it is unprofitable. The majority will thus be always unable to afford it, and will base their opinions on mother wit and current opinion rather than on demonstration.

Ramblings in Cheapside (1890)

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