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-- Brad Delong

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Quotes of the Day, With a Dash of WTH?!?

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Quoted by John Holbo, at CT, where (in comment #13) Jim Harrison adds:

 Rhetoric, after all, has always been about making the worse case defeat the better.

But (of course) I wholly misunderstand (you remember my definition of misunderstand) rhetoric.

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