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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.
An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.


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