Samuel Butler (novelist)

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist.

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  • ”The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”[1]
Simple: The man who allows himself to be bored is even more contemptible than the man who is very boring.

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  1. The Fair Haven, Memoir of the Late John Pickard Owen, Ch. 3 (1873)

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