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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Debate is the death of conversation.
Debate is the death of conversation.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is read more
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.
And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish read more
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis
best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent
spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves
an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.
