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"Not a doubt of it," said I, laughing, in spite of myself, at Alcibiades's countenance. S. "It is in danger, then, of proving to be something quite brutish and doggish, this spirit of truth. I should not wonder, therefore, if we found it proper to be restrained." A. "How so, thou hair-splitter?"
His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake. Luis de Leon was, as a rule, so unaccommodating that some of his judges may have begun to think they understood why he was not universally popular with members of his own order.
"I fail to see it," he said. "Of course," I retorted. "It is not one of your jokes. But say, Harry, when you send a poem to a magazine and the editor doesn't want it, what does he do with it?" "Returns it. Ah!" The "ah" was a gasp. "You are the hair-splitter this time," said he, ruefully. "I am," said I. "I could effectually destroy a whole wig of hairs like that.
Most people probably thought him a nuisance, since he was always about with his questions, puzzling some, confuting others, and reproving all, careless of love or hatred, and contemptuous of all conventionalities. So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.
That, I think, would be the outcome of Emerson's 'Representative Men, or of those most tragic 'Memoirs of Margaret Puller Ossoli." "How then, hair-splitter? What is the mighty difference?" "Would you call Dick Turpin a good man, because he was a good highwayman?" "What now?" "That he would be an excellent representative man of his class; and therefore, on Mr.
Ben advanced cash, in dribs or wads, accordin' to needs, an' kept a set o' books. Het's got all that an' more on her conscience, an' she's gittin' as thin as a splinter over it. Folks say she's a regular hair-splitter when it comes to settlements. She would divide a copper cent into several parts if the Government would let 'em pass that way. Come in the parlor, Alf.
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