XXVII.

Should your opponent surprise you by becoming particularly angry at an

argument, you must urge it with all the more zeal; not only because it

is a good thing to make him angry, but because it may be presumed that

you have here put your finger on the weak side of his case, and that

just here he is more open to attack than even for the moment you

perceive.

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