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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms. - Aristotle 'Tis strange how some men's tempers suit, Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, That for their own opinions stand fast, Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd. - Samuel Butler (1) The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error--a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age. - William Ellery Channing The pain of dispute exceeds by much its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf I am dumb. - Joseph Joubert It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular. - William Shenstone
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