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quarrel
«People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.»
Author: John Cheever
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dick, harried, harry, loathe, Mary, mayhem, named, nomenclature, quarrel, Reno, rudimentary, saneness, tom, whim
«The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
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high society, particularity, quarrel, selves, subversive
«Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men»
«People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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argue, generally, quarrel, quarreled, quarreling
«Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?»
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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afford, bitten, clearly, consequences, contention, contentions, contested, Contests, dog bite, good temper, including, killing, larger, lesser, loss, path of least, Personal Best, Personal self, quarrel, resolved, self control, spare, spare time, temper, The Dog, vitiated, vitiating, yield
«ROUNDHEAD, n. A member of the Parliamentarian party in the English civil war --so called from his habit of wearing his hair short, whereas his enemy, the Cavalier, wore his long. There were other points of difference between them, but the fashion in hair was the fundamental cause of quarrel. The Cavaliers were royalists because the king, an indolent fellow, found it more convenient to let his hair grow than to wash his neck. This the Roundheads, who were mostly barbers and soap-boilers, deemed an injury to trade, and the royal neck was therefore the object of their particular indignation. Descendants of the belligerents now wear their hair all alike, but the fires of animosity enkindled in that ancient strife smoulder to this day beneath the snows of British civility.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Ancient of Days, animosities, animosity, barber, barbered, Barbers, belligerent, boiler, British, British and, Cavalier, civil, civilities, civility, civil war, convenient, deemed, descendant, descendants, English Civil War, enkindled, enkindles, fires, indignation, indolent, injury, member, mostly, neck, parliamentarian, quarrel, Roundhead, royal, royalist, smoulder, snows, so-called, soap, soaps, strife, The Civil War, The Descendants, the English, the king, The Object of, to this day, wash, wore
«Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Originality
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clamour, originality, quarrel
«Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Reputation
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bearded, bubble, cannon, cannons, jealous, oaths, quarrel