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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. Henry Fielding—Tom Thumb the Great. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 55. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Smart) Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me. Genesis. XIII. 8. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it. Nath. Hawthorne—The Marble Faun. Vol. II. Ch.XXII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. | author =Homer | work = The Iliad. | place = Bk. VII. L. 364 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sharp contentions. | author = Homer | work = Iliad. | place = Bk. LX. L. 317. | note = Bryant's trans. | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A man of strife and a man of contention. Jeremiah. XV. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mansit concordia discors. Agreement exists in disagreement. Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 98. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ducibus tantum de funere pugna est. The chiefs contend only for their place of burial. Lucan—Pharsalia. VI. 811. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. Mark. III. 25. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Irritabis crabrones. You will stir up the hornets. Plautus—Amphitruo. Act II. 2. 75. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Proverbs. XXVII. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Irriter les freslons. Stir up the hornets. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. Scott—Peter of the Peak. Ch. XL. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat. | trans = The whole concord of this world consists in discords. | author = Seneca | work = Nat. Quœst. | place = Bk. VII. 27. | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier—white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And, big with vengeance, beats the barberblack. In comes the brick-dust man. with grime o'erAnd beats the collier and the barber—red; Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. | author = Christopher Smart | work = Soliloquy of the Princess Periwinkle in A Trip to Cambridge. | note = See {{sc|Campbell}}'s Specimens of the British Poets. Vol. VI. P. 185. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Fielding}}) | topic = Contention | page = 136 }}