The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing … - William Warburton

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With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.

William Warburton

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

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Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

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Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

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A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

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Without enthusiasm, the adventurer could never kindle that fire in his followers which is so necessary to consolidate their mutual interests; for no one can heartily deceive numbers who is not first of all deceived himself.

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