LUCIUS: From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Cato, Act 5, sc. 4, l. 106ff (1713)
(Source)
After Cato's suicide during the civil war against Julius Caesar.
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internecine warfare
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LAWRENCE: (calling after him) Sherif Ali, so long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people. A silly people! Greedy, barbarous, and cruel — as you are!
Robert Bolt (1924–1995) English dramatist
Lawrence of Arabia, Part 1, sc. 106 (1962) [with Michael Wilson]
(Source)
After Sherif Ali has killed the Arab guide Lawrence was using for being of the wrong tribe to use one of the Harith tribe's wells.
