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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler Attribution: Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler’s Notebooks, p. 114, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).

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Samuel Butler

Encyclopedia:

• Butler, Samuel (‘Hudibras’) (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Butler, Samuel (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Samuel Butler (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Samuel Butler (1612-1680) (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Samuel Butler (1835-1902) (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Samuel Butler (1835-1902) (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

Literary Criticism:

• Butler, Samuel (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Samuel Butler publishes Hudibras in three parts
• Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh is published