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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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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. – Walt Whitman

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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. – Niels Bohr

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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth. – P. J. ORourke

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