Some Recollections of Rufus Choate (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Boy as I was, I learned then what was characteristic of Mr. Choate through life his horror of commonplace. Why, he seem ed to say, argue about a thing which an in telligent human being should detect at the first glance 'l He always tried to evade bores, in youth as in age; and to him the most dreadful of bores were well-meaning men, deficient in quickness of apprehension and directness of insight, who were fond of exercising their powers of disputation in the weary work of placing on a logical foundation the indisputable. Godwin once mentioned to Coleridge that he and Mack intosh had been engaged for three hours in an argument without arriving at a definite conclusion. If there had been a man of genius in the room, Coleridge retorted, he would have settled the question in five min utes. Choate had this impatience of a man of genius with long-winded controversies.

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