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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Contention

Contention is like fire; for both burn so long as there is any exhaustible matter to contend with.
—Thomas Adams

Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him.
—William Shakespeare