There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. ✨ Samuel Butle…

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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ✨ Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 39
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ✨ Samuel Butler (2015). Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated), p.935, Delphi Classics
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ✨ Samuel Butler (1806). Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars, p.248
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. ✨ 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. Book by Robert Byrne, 1988.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ✨ Samuel Butler (2008). The Note-books of S … ▶

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