| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9578 |
| QUOTATION: | Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Butler (18351902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butlers Notebooks, p. 114, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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