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• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Mistake, May, Excuse

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• Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

  David Lloyd George

  Men, Blood, Angry Man

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1917-1918”

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• Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.

  Anthony Eden

  Country, Men, Egypt

  "Oil route 'a matter of life and death". The Times, (p. 6), August 9, 1956.

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• I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

  Blaise Pascal

  Gossip, World, Four

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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  Two, People

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• You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

  Catherine the Great

  Mood, Please, Inclination

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• How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

  Charles Kingsley

  Character, Blue, Pills

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• I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

  John Adams

  Party, Understanding, Tongue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.432

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• Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Mean, Fighting

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.193, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Friendship is far more delicate than love. Quarrels and fretful complaints are attractive in the last, offensive in the first. And the very things which heap fewel on the fire of ardent passion, choke and extinguish sober and true regard. On the other hand, time, which is sure to destroy that love of which half certainly depends on desire, is as sure to increase a friendship founded on talents, warm with esteem, and ambitious of success for the object of it.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Passion, Fire, Hands

  Hester Lynch Piozzi, Penelope Pennington (2005). “The Intimate Letters of Piozzi and Pennington”, Nonsuch Pub

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• To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.

  Fanny Burney

  Mind, Way, Elude

  Fanny Burney (1972). “Camilla: or, A picture of youth”

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• The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was: If you get into a quarrel with anybody, hit him first. "If you hit first, the battle is half-won," my father always said "Don't let him hit first. You hit him first." "What's more," he never forgot to say, too "Usually one blow is all you need." I found this to be true.

  Christopher Vokes

  Father, Blow, Practice

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 8), 1985.

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• It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

  Frances Trollope

  Should Have, Cities, People

  Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

  Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Miss Silver Intervenes”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• I must not quarrel with the will
  Of highest dispensation, which herein,
  Haply had ends above my reach to know.

  John Milton

  Providence, Ends, Highest

  John Milton (1872). “Milton's Samson Agonistes and Lycidas: With Numerous Illustrative Notes, Etc., Adapted for Use in Training Colleges and Schools”, p.10

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• In dancing the Alman the young men sometimes steal the damsels from their partners and he who has been robbed seeks to obtain another damsel. But I do not hold with this behaviour because it may lead to quarrels and heart burning.

  Thoinot Arbeau

  Heart, Men, Dancing

  Thoinot Arbeau (1967). “Orchesography”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

  Aristotle

  Cutting, Errors, Law

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2080, Princeton University Press

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• We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.

  Barry Long

  Views, Looks, Facts

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Society, Dowry

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Book, Quoting, Quotations

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.177

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• God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Justice, Mercy

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• I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Bread, Bread And Butter

  1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 1.

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• Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

  Boethius

  Happiness, Sides, Estates

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (1964). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.25, Aeterna Press

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• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

  George Herbert

  Tools, Workmen

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• Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Religion, Inheritance

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.180

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