"I think it is better, as it is a family-affair, to stand over for the chance of a compromise."
— Compromise

January 1, 1970

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Lord Mansfield, Strong v. Cummin (1758), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 769; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 38.