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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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To be is to think and to be thinkable. To live is to continue thinking and to remember having done so.

If we are asked what is the most essential characteristic that underlies this word, the word itself will guide us to gentleness, to absence of such things as brow-beating, overbearing manners and fuss, and generally to consideration for other people.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. - Samuel Butler

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