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

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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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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Samuel Butler

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