Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – Samuel Butler