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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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People who contradict and dispute should now and then remember that not every mode of speech is intelligible to every one.
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Every man hears only what he understands.
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I am quite prepared to find that many a reader will disagree with me; but when he has a thing before him in black and white, he must let it stand. Another reader may perhaps take up the very same copy and agree with me.