The aimof argument

The aimof argument
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  

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If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings
The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
Use softwords and hard arguments.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important
Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.