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• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Forever, Hammers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

  E. M. Forster

  Peace, War, Incredibles

  "Howard's End".

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• We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Unfortunate

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• The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

  William Shakespeare

  Heat, Sharpness, Feels

  William Shakespeare (2011). “King Lear Thrift Study Edition”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

  Joseph Hall

  Suffering, Strive, Found

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• One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Morality, Reason

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• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

  Wendell Phillips

  Differences, Religion

  Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, C. I. H. Nichols (1854). “Woman's Rights Tracts”, p.20

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• So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

  Henri Bourassa

  Country, Europe, Two

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• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, Past, Reality

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

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• A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Lovers, Bad Relationship

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• And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Stories, World

  "The Lesson for Today" l. 158 (1942)

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• When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Anger, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

  Blaise Pascal

  Peace, Men, Rivers

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

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• When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Blame

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• The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Strong, Heart

  "Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola" by Ignatius of Loyola, (No. 325), 1548.

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• A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

  Jean Rostand

  Anniversary, Marriage, Couple

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• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Break Up, Fire

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• The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Religious, Real, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 20, 2017

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• Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

  Rick Riordan

  Funny, Family, Humorous

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.111, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

  Mark Twain

  Forgiveness, Death, Suicide

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• When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy, Want, Arguing

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

  Andre Gide

  Amplify, Argument, Dialogue

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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