Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
More Quotes from Samuel Butler:
He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made.Samuel Butler
The money men make lives after them.
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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He had got a hurt O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.
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