Quote#Time
Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time,…
Quote bySamuel Butler · 1835–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part XIV: Higgledy-Piggledy, Sparks.
English (original)
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.
— Samuel Butler
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