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, Protagoras was the first to say that there are two sides to every question, one opposed to the other.
1802
Autobiography
(1966) III. 269
There were two Sides to a question.
1817
Letter
5 May in
Adams—Jefferson Letters
(1959) II. 513
Men of energy of character must have enemies: because there are two sides to every question, and .. those who take the other will of course be hostile.
1863
Water Babies
vi.
Let them recollect this, that there are two sides to every question, and a downhill as well as an uphill road.
1957
Letter
in V. Glendinning
Edith Sitwell
(1981) xxviii.
It's more than platitudinous to say that there are two sides to every question but there is something to be said on both sides.
1971
Red Hand
iii.
From the English point of view which inevitably they have applied to .. Ireland, the art of politics consists in realizing that there are two sides to every question.
fair dealing
It takes TWO to make a bargain
1597
Colours of Good & Euill
x. 68
The seconde worde makes the bargaine.
1598
Mucedorus
B2 Nay, soft, sir, tow words to a bargaine,
a
1637
et al.
Widow
V
. i.
There's two words to a bargain ever .. and if love be one, I'm sure money's the other.
1766
Vicar of Wakefield
II. xii.
‘Hold, hold, Sir,’ cried Jenkinson, ‘there are two words to that bargain.’
1943
Journey in Dark
iv.
Takes two to make a bargain, and you both done mighty wrong.
1973
Bardel's Murder
iv.
My father was in skins and he had to carry a life-preserver, they got so nasty.
Caveat emptor
, he used to say, it taking two to make a bargain.
buying and selling

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