The history of art is the history of revivals. — Quoted

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.”

Samuel Butler · Art

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Samuel Butler

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Death

Samuel Butler

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

War

Samuel Butler

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death

Samuel Butler

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

Power