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• When two quarrel, both are to blame. Dutch Proverb
• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party
  here is no battle unless there be two. -- Seneca...
• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
• A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two.
• Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. Spanish Proverb
• Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
  -- Emerso...
• For knighthood is not in the feats of war, As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong, But in a cause which truth cannot defe
  He ought himself for to make sure and strong, Just to keep mixt with mercy among...
• Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion.
  An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely....
• One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.
  -- Gustave Flaubert (letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 12, 1846)...