No Man But A Blockhead Ever Wrote

Large Offers And Sturdy Rejections Are Among The Most Common Topics Of Falsehood.

Oratory Is The Power Of Beating Down Your Adversary's Arguments And Putting Better In Their Place.

All Discourse Of Which Others Cannot Partake Is Not Only An Irksome Usurpation Of The Time Devoted To Pleasure And Entertainment, But, What Never Fails To Excite Resentment, An Insolent Assertion Of Superiority, And A Triumph Over Less Enlightened Understandings. The Pedant Is, Therefore, Not Only Heard With Weariness But Malignity; And Those Who Conceive Themselves Insulted By His Knowledge Never Fail To Tell With Acrimony How Injudiciously It Was Exerted.

There Are Occasions On Which All Apology Is Rudeness.

One Of The Disadvantages Of Wine Is That It Makes A Man Mistake Words For Thoughts.