Quote by Samuel Butler
All truth is not to be told at all times. - Samuel Butler

All truth is not to be told at all times. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Life
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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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Quotations
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Other Quotes from
Truth
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The first casualty when war comes is truth. – Hiram Johnson

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Truth

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. – Andre Maurois

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Truth

Fiction is the truth inside the lie. – Stephen King

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Truth

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Truth

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Sitting

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov

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The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. – Elbert Hubbard

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