We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil w…

Charles Caleb Colton
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.189
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