“A regra é perfeita: em todos os assuntos de opinião nossos adversários estão loucos.”

— Mark Twain , Christian Science

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Christian Science (1907)

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Christian Science (1907)
Contexto: When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic — for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it. He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his. All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the Republicans and Mugwumps know it. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats and Mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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escritor, humorista e inventor norte-americano 1835–1910

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