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6556. PEOPLE, Animosities.—

The animosities
of sovereigns are temporary and May
be allayed; but those which seize the whole
body of a people, and of a people, too, who
dictate their own measures, produce calamities
of long duration.—
To C. W. F. Dumas. Washington ed. i, 553.
(P. 1786)