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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven.
  Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?...
• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
  -- Samuel Butler, "Notebook...
• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
  William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]...
• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Notebooks(1935)...
• The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains.
  Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your loses....
• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...