Alexander Pope Delight Quotations

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.