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Treating your adversary...

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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Source: In James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides, 15 Aug 1773, 1785.
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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