Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
“Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does.”
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
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