William Feather vs. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

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William Feather

1889 – 1981

Business
United States

William A. Feather was an American publisher and writer, based in Cleveland, Ohio.

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"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don'…"

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Samuel Butler (novelist)

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1835 – 1902

Literature
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.

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"All we know is, that even the humblest dead may live along after all trace of the body has disappeared; we see them doing it in the bodies and memories of these…"

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Connections

Samuel Butler (novelist) was influenced by William Feather
Shared era: 1889 – 1902

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