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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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. – Samuel Butler

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. – Steffi Graf

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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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Show me a good loser and Ill show you an idiot. – Leo Durocher

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