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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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. – Hirohito

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