Famous quotes containing the words offer and/or debate:
“To each they offer gifts after his will,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)