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Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. Keep cool; anger is not an argument. Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. Soft words are hard arguments. The argument of the strongest is always the best. Use soft words and hard arguments. There are usually two sides to every argument but no end. How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Silence is argument carried on by other means. Truth is always the strongest argument. Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments. Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order. The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable. There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead. A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder. I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument. Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
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