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Who Can Refute a Sneer?

By William Paley

Clever people have realised that it is easier to get people on your side by mockery than by persuasion.

Question More

By NL Clay

Ordinary people put too much faith in the judgment of experts, which is bad for us and bad for the experts.

Order and Method

By Hugh Blair

Taking the trouble to express ourselves more clearly helps us to think more clearly too.

‘If They Can Stand It I Can’

By Abraham Lincoln

However loud his critics shouted their disapproval, Abraham Lincoln would neither deprive them of free speech nor change his opinions.

The Boldness of Junius Mauricus

By Pliny the Younger

Pliny admired Julius Mauricus because he spoke his mind, and Emperor Nerva because he let him.

Of Hares, Hounds and Red Herrings

By William Cobbett

In January 1807, newspapers breathlessly reported that Napoleon Bonaparte’s rampage across Europe was at an end — but was it true?

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