The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Tag: Samuel Butler
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.