There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning… - Arthur Helps

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There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

Arthur Helps

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Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council.

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