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Samuel McChord Crothers was an American Unitarian minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist.Crothers graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey . After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian church in 1882.

Crothers died suddenly at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. June 1857 – 1927
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Famous Samuel McChord Crothers Quotes

“To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.”

Samuel McChord Crothers

Source: The Gentle Reader (1903), p. 272

“There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.”

Samuel McChord Crothers

Source: The Gentle Reader (1903), p. 279; Regarding the thought process of quixotic societies,

“We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.”

Samuel McChord Crothers

Source: The Gentle Reader (1903), p. 277

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