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Samuel Butler

"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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"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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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."
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