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What Tully says of war may be applied to disputing,—it should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace: but generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,—their whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
What Tully says of war may be applied to disputing,—it should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace: but generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,—their whole delight is in the pursuit; and a disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 49 · printed citation: Pope · subject: Controversy
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