Wednesday, May 31, 2023

 

Worth Living For

Samuel Butler, The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. I: 20th January 1774-1st March 1831 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1924), p. 247:
I have heard the late Canon W.G. Humphry say, "Dr. Butler certainly did succeed in making us believe that Latin and Greek were the one thing worth living for."



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