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Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

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A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
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547 printed pages

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    But who can love any man whose liver is out of order?
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    "we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough either in painting, music or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough
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    • Екатерина Кироваhas quoted7 years ago
      homo unius libri,
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