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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries read more
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
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.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.
I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an
understanding.
Debate is the death of conversation.
Debate is the death of conversation.
The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?
Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?
