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Quote by Samuel Butler
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense t

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. – Henry A. Wallace

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Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil

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The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may. – Jack Kemp

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