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Thomas Reed vs Henry Clay
Winston Churchill Vs. Lady Astor
NY Mayor Ed Koch Vs. Andrew Kirtzman
After the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made.Groucho Marx Vs. A Contestant on "You Bet Your Life"
After the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10.Abraham Lincoln Vs. Stephen Douglas
After Douglas called him "two-faced" during a debate:Calvin Coolidge Vs. An Opera Singer
Pierre Trudeau Vs. Richard Nixon
Upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole.Oscar Wilde Vs. Lewis Morris
Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship.Mohandas Gandhi Vs. Western Civilization
James McNeill Whistler Vs. Oscar Wilde
After Whistler had made a particularly witty observation.Senator Fritz Hollings Vs. Henry McMastor
When challenged by his Republican opponent during a televised debate to take a drug test.Bill Clinton Vs. Dan Quayle
After Quayle revealed that he planned to be "a pit bull" in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore.Niels Bohr Vs. A Reporter
Reverend Edward Everett Hale Vs. The U.S. Senate
When asked if he prayed for the Senators.
Edna Ferber Vs. Noel Coward
Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit.
Winston Churchill Vs. A Member Of ParliamentAlcibiades Vs. Pericles
Calvin Coolidge Vs. Some Random Lady At A White House Dinner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Vs. An Admirer
Robert Benchley Vs. A Man In Uniform
Abraham Lincoln Vs. A Foreign Diplomat
After the diplomat found Lincoln polishing his boots in his office.Muhammad Ali Vs. Joe Frazier
John Wilkes Vs. John Montagu
Ilka Chase Vs. An Anonymous Actress
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller Vs. An Attendee At A Church Conference
After the man ranted against university education and thanked God that he had never been corrupted by going to college.Winston Churchill Vs. George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill Vs. Bessie Braddock
Earnest Hemingway Vs. William Faulkner
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