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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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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."
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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."
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"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
Progress
"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
Genius
"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."
Philosophy
"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
Sincerity
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
Literature
"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."
Insight
"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
Books
"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
Experience
"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
Art
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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