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“The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“In a false quarrel there is no true valour.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“They have made the happy discovery, that the way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Dispute not with her,—she is lunatic.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute with him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.” Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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