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Avoid disputes as much as possible. In order to appear easy & well bred in conversation you may assure yourself that it requires more wit, as well as more good humor to improve, than to contradict the notions of another; but if at any time you are obliged to enter on an argument, give your reasons, with the utmost coolness, & modesty, two things which scarce ever fail of making a favourable impression of you on your hearers. Besides, if you are neither dogmatical, nor shew by your actions or words that you are full of yourself all will the more heartily rejoice at yr. victory. Nay should you be pinched in
