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• Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dark, Sides, Dialogue

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

  Andre Gide

  Amplify, Quarrels, Dialogue

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• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fear, Dodge, Arguing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1905.

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• No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Your Side, People, Intelligence

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• I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Comprehension, Antagonist, Bounds

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Benjamin Disraeli (1982). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1835-1837”

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• Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Giving, Bows, Arguing

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.966, Delphi Classics

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• The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

  E. W. Howe

  Satisfaction, Sounder

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• Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wish, Prove

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Politics, Association

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.394

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• The argument is at an end.

  Saint Augustine

  Ends

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• Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

  Isaac Watts

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

  Isaac Watts (1821). “The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts”, p.68

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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Song, Simile

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• Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

  Jonathan Swift

  Book, Reading, Conversation

  "The works of Dean Swif".

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• Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Party, Fall

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• 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.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

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• When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

  Alexander Pope

  Past, Lasts, Disputes

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Verse and Prose”, p.272

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• 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.

  Roger Bacon

  Men, Fire, Hands

  "Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book by Carol A. Dingle, p. 21, 2000.

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Found You, Understanding, Statistics

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for June 1784)

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• That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

  Christopher Buckley

  Smoking, Arguing, Ifs

  Jason Reitman, Christopher Buckley (2007). “Thank You For Smoking: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Learning, Winning, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.781, Hamilton Books

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• The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Army, Noble, Causes

  Speech in the House of Commons, April, 1844.

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  Samuel Butler

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Irony

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• 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.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.207, Wordsworth Editions

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