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All Fools are Opiniatours, and all Opi∣niatours are Fools. The more Erroneous their Opinions are, the more they hug them. It is civil to yield, even in those things wherein we have greatest reason and certainty: for then all know, who
had reason on their side: and besides the reason, Gallantry is also discovered in the procedure. There is more esteem lost, by a wilfull resistence, then there is got by car∣rying it by open force. For that is not so much a defending of truth, as a demonstrati∣on of Clownishness. There are knotty heads very difficult to be cleft, and which al∣ways run upon some incurable extremity: and when once whimsey joins to their head-strongness, they contract an indisso∣luble league with extravagance. Inflexi∣bility ought to be in the will, and not in the judgment: though there be excepted cases too, wherein one is not to suffer himself to be gained, nor doubly over∣come; that's to say, both in the reason, and in the execution.