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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."
- Samuel Butler, More quotation on Lies. |
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"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill."
- Samuel Butler. |
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"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
- Samuel Butler. |
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"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
- Samuel Butler, More quotation on Life. |
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
- Samuel Butler. |
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."
- Samuel Butler, More quotation on Mankind. |
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"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
- Samuel Butler. |
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
- Samuel Butler. |
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"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly."
- Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872), More quotation on Money. |
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"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
- Samuel Butler, More quotation on In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir. |