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Quote by Samuel Butler
It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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Man is Gods highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. – Samuel Butler

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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop

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