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Friday, May 09, 2025
Disputes
John Henry Newman (1801-1890), The Idea of a University (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902), p. 498:
Reflect, Gentlemen, how many disputes you must have listened to, which were interminable, because neither party understood either his opponent or himself.