"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."

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"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."

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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

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