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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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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. – Samuel Butler

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

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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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