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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie well.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), "Notebooks" 1912...
• Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
  -- Samuel Butle...
• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
  William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]...
• No epigram contains the whole truth. -- C. W. Thompso
• A half-truth is a whole lie. Jewish Proverb
• The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Boh