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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 19.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 19.

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The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 34.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 34.

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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 14.

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Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

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