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In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

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

Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

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

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

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

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.