The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
More Quotes from Samuel Butler:
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure tangible material prosperity in this world is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.Samuel Butler
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler
The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
Samuel Butler
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
Samuel Butler
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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