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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. – Samuel Butler

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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