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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1902

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1902

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Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

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