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Quotes of Samuel Butler [27]
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.
- Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
- The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.
- I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
- It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.
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