Argument Quote by Sterling W Sill

“Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.” quote by Sterling W Sill — Download Open image

“Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.”

Sterling W Sill

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