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Quote by Samuel Butler
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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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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Veiling truth in mystery. – Virgil

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

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