In conversing at entertainments his habit was to propose some topic from scripture, to listen modestly, to answer diffidently, to support the right, to refute the wrong, but both without bitterness; to instruct his opponent rather than to vanquish him.
Saint Jerome on Saint Nepotian
Sometimes the opponent just shuts down the door to further communication;
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