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

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Life
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. – Samuel Butler

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God
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher

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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. – Antisthenes

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! – Alexander Pope

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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. – William Shakespeare, HenryV

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