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Quote by Lyman Beecher
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or relig

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. – Lyman Beecher

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it – Lyman Beecher

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Deception/Lying
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Lyman Beecher
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop

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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. – Antisthenes

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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. – Walter Benjamin

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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