Charles Caleb Colton - We are sure to be losers when we argue with

We are sure to be losers when we argue with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.

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Charles Caleb Colton, ~1780-1832, British Clergyman & Writer, Lacon, 1825

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