To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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Topic

Life Love

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

Journals of Samuel Butler

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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Source
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