Samuel Butler (novelist) Quote

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.


The Essential Samuel Butler (ed. 1950)


Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.