
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
The Freeholder, no. 4.
Clement Attlee in a letter to Tom Attlee (22 February 1939), quoted in Maurice Cowling, The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy. 1933-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 177
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“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
The Freeholder, no. 4.
“It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
As quoted in Encore : A Continuing Anthology (March 1945) edited by Smith Dent, "Fischerisms" p. 309