Insight makes argument ridiculous. - John Lancaster Spalding

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Insight makes argument ridiculous.

John Lancaster Spalding

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John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.

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They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn.

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Insight makes argument ridiculous. - John Lancaster Spalding

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