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Logic is like the sword - Samuel Butler

Logic is like the sword – Samuel Butler

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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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Argument & Debate
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Samuel Butler
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Faith – you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Virtue
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Other Quotes from
Logic
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

Category:
Logic

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

Category:
Logic

The much vaunted male logic isnt logical, because they display prejudices — against half the human race — that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. – Eva Figes

Category:
Logic

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Logic

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If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Well, if Fortune be a woman, shes a good wench for this gear. – William Shakespeare

Category:
good

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

Category:
Humankind

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didnt have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasnt been herself at all. – Eric West

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mom