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When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

— Phyllis McGinley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

— William Drummond

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

— Knut Hamsun

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

— William Drummond

Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

— Richard III of England

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

— Richard Hooker

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

— Voltaire

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

— Wellington Mara

The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

— John Fiske

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

— Toussaint Louverture

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

— Samuel Lover

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