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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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. – Joseph Addison

As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be – D. W. Brogan

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. – Larry Adler

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