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About Samuel Butler
English novelist and critic
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and for The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical novel that has stayed in print since publication. Butler also wrote on Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art. He made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey, which are still consulted today.
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Nature: more sayings
- “Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”Satchel Paige
- “We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation. Here we…”Jacqueline Simon Gunn
- “That law of nature whereby everything climbs to higher platforms, and bodily vigor becomes mental and moral v…”Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books by Samuel Butler
Erewhon
1981
Erewhon Revisited
1910
The way of all flesh
2007
Erewhon / Erewhon revisited
1932