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"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed." »C. C. Colton
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"When two quarrel, both are to blame." »Dutch Proverb
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"We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves." »Hazlitt
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"Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping." »Latin Proverb
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." »Robert Frost
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"In a false quarrel there is no true valour." »William Shakespeare
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." »Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it grows." »Bolivian Proverb
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"From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs." »Cato the Elder
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"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot." »George Herbert
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"The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence." »James Waddell Alexander, II
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention." »Abraham Lincoln
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"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry." »Thomas Jefferson
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"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion." »William Ralph Inge
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"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man." »William Shakespeare
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