Edmund Gosse Quotes

He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.

Edmund Gosse

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.

Jacques Roumain
- Life
- Good
- Rude
It's all about who gets to work and making sure they're legally present in our country. And to do that nationally E-verify becomes a key component. It certainly needs to available, effective and as inexpensive as possible and that employer needs to use it as a tool. Some of the arguments that are made about how it works or does not work don't carry much water with me. I've already used it for several years. It works.

Janet Napolitano
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

Immanuel Kant
- Popular
- Force
- Truths
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Plato
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Plato
- Men
- Arguments
- Pretenders