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and my whole body aches because of it
Dialectic, then, need have nothing to do with truth, as little as the fencing master considers who is in the right when a dispute leads to a duel. Thrust and parry is the whole business. Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing: and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge.
(from The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer)
Marie-Celeste de Villentroy in Australian flag, ca. 1920
Tallulah Bankhead in the London stage production of The Dancers (1923)
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