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Better Quotes by Samuel Butler
- Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the…
- It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
- To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is…
- A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
- It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
- I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till…
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