Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.Samuel Butler
Such as take lodgings in a head That 's to be let unfurnished.
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For all a rhetorician's rules teach nothing but to name his tools.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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