William Hurrell Mallock - No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can m

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.

- William Hurrell Mallock

topic: Thinking, Encounters, Might