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Quote by Samuel Butler
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he i

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. – Bill Bradley

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The cheerful loser is the winner. – Elbert Hubbard

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Loss leaves us empty – but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible – but new joys wait to fill the void. – Pam Brown

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Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return? – Epictetus

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