When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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