"Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."

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Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

— Mark Twain