"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things."
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January 1, 1970

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Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto I. "Contests" is "quarrels" in first ed. Same idea in Erasmus, Adagia. Claudianus, In Rufinum, II. 49