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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

George Washington

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But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sharp contentions.

— Homer, The Iliad, Book LX, line 317. Bryant's translation.

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The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

— Proverbs, XIX. 13. (Sourced)

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Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

— Proverbs 23:29-32.

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contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

walter scott

— Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, Chapter XL.

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contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

walter scott

— Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, Chapter XL. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670.

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The haven from sophistications and contentions Leaks through its thatch; He offers succulent cooking; The door has a creaking latch.

— 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.10.

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