Quote by Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both. – Joseph Addison

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. – Proverb

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. – Joseph Addison

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