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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Acquainted with Controversy

Those who have been at all acquainted with controversy, will find it the hardest thing for two warm disputants, when struggling hard for victory, not to throw about that dirt, whereby if they cannot overthrow, they are sure to blacken and bespatter, each other.

William Dunlop
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