It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question
without debating it
- Joseph Joubert
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I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this,
and steer clear of me at parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect,
they don't even invite me
- Dave Barry
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Silence is one of the hardest
arguments to refute
- Josh Billings
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People generally quarrel
because they cannot argue
- Chesterton
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The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is
getting ready to skin you
- K. Hubbard
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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me
- Dudley Field Malone
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak
- Michel de Montaigne
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him
- John Morley
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him
- George Bernard Shaw
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one
- Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about
- Sam Ewing
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When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as you
- Irving Layton
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A mere friend will agree with you,
but a real friend will argue
- Unknown
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself
- Benjamin Disraeli
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