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

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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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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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.



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