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How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
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.
 And there begins a lang digression
 About the lords o' the creation.  
 And there begins a lang digression
 About the lords o' the creation. 
 The daughter of debate
 That still discord doth sow.  
 The daughter of debate
 That still discord doth sow. 
 The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
 Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.  
 The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
 Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. 
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
 Reproachful speech from either side
 The want of argument supplied;
  They rail, reviled; as often ends
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 Reproachful speech from either side
 The want of argument supplied;
  They rail, reviled; as often ends
   The contests of disputing friends. 
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.