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“No arguments will give courage to the coward.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” George Bernard Shaw, “The Philanderer” - 1893

“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, “The Subjection of Women” - 1869

“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

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