“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”
Charles Dickens (1939)
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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