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What is the meaning of the sentence?

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

(BY:Joseph Addison, 1672-1719)


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Hello,

What is the meaning of the sentence?

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

(BY:Joseph Addison, 1672-1719)


Thank you.
It's part of a larger context:

Ladies are always of great use to the Party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of the sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that, though, a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half-a-dozen able-bodies men to his majesty's service. The female world are likewise indisputably necessary in the best causes to manage the controversial part of them, in which no man of tolerable breeding is ever able to refute them. Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.



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A woman's beauty can cloud a man's rational faculties.


See also here (pages 127 - 128).
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As I see it, it means "if you're a pretty woman, men are less likely to controvert (oppose) your argument or opion".
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