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"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Fight, Fighting, First, Man

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"One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once."

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