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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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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. – Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Dont try to say its your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there. – Kurt Masur

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I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. – Prince William

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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if were fighting a war on terror. – Bill Kristol

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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. – William Lyon Phelps

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