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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...
• 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....
• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• To do great work work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. -- Samuel Butle
• All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• An honest God's the noblest work of man. -- Samuel Butle
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
  -- Samuel Butle...