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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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A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. – Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. – Eric Davis

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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. – Galeazzo Ciano

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