Samuel Butler's Quote - For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swin

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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swin

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. – Samuel Butler

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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Truth is a naked and open daylight – Francis Bacon

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If you tell the truth, you dont have to remember anything. – Mark Twain

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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. – Ellen DeGeneres

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And, after all, what is a lie? Tis but the truth in a masquerade. – Alexander Pope

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