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For just as in our bodies, so long as a man is in sound health, he is
conscious of no pain, but if some malady assails him, every part is set
a-working, be it rupture or sprain or any other local affection; even so is it
with states and monarchies; as long as their wars are on foreign soil, few
detect their weaknesses, but when the shock of battle is on their frontiers, it
makes all their faults perfectly clear.
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