“ The older I grow, the more convinced I become of the folly and credulity of the public ”
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (1903). copy citation
| Author | Samuel Butler |
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| Source | The Way of All Flesh |
| Topic | credulity folly |
| Date | 1903 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2084/2084-h/2084-h.htm |
Context
“After a time he took it into his head to reopen the question of his getting £300 a year for doing, as he said, absolutely nothing, and said he would try to find some employment which should bring him in enough to live upon.
I laughed at this but let him alone. He tried and tried very hard for a long while, but I need hardly say was unsuccessful. The older I grow, the more convinced I become of the folly and credulity of the public; but at the same time the harder do I see it is to impose oneself upon that folly and credulity.
He tried editor after editor with article after article. Sometimes an editor listened to him and told him to leave his articles;”
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