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How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?
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.
Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men
above ourselves; but to confirm and establish read more
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.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.
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.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.