WRITERS A-H > novelist, satirist, scholar > Samuel Butler (b)

As soon as...

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As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

Source: Notebooks.
-- Samuel Butler (b), (Dec 4 1835-1902), English novelist, satirist, scholar; He was known for his ironic, witty semi-autobiographical novel, Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon, 1872.


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