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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

by Samuel Butler

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My Birthright

I had to steal my own birthright. I stole it and was bitterly punished. But I saved my soul alive.

XII — The Enfant Terrible of Literature

Myself

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

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