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

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Citation

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

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