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Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? For witnesses, like watches, go Just as they're set, too fast or slow; And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd, 'Tis ten to one that side is cast.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.

In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.

Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.

A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.

For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler ,

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse.