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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), "Notebooks" 1912...
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butler, "Notebook...
• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of though
  Samuel Butle...
• The dearer a thing is, the cheaper as a general rule we sell it -- Samuel Butle
• We think as we do, mainly because other people think so. -- Samuel Butle
• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premisses.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow.
  So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• An honest God's the noblest work of man. -- Samuel Butle
• Look before you leap. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)