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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 376
Chapter --
Text could you?'

`I think I could.'

`Oh, of course, you think you know,' sneered Crass, `and of course you think your opinion's right and everybody else's is wrong.'

`Yes,' replied Owen.

Several men expressed their abhorrence of this intolerant attitude of Owen's, but the latter rejoined:

`Of course I think that my opinions are right and that everyone who differs from me is wrong. If I didn't think their opinions were wrong I wouldn't differ from them. If I didn't think my own opinions right I wouldn't hold them.'

`But there's no need to keep on arguin' about it day after day,' said Crass. `You've got your opinion and I've got mine. Let everyone enjoy his own opinion, I say.'
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