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Sheer human nature, wearied of strife, sought the escape that mutual accommodation alone afforded.
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Beveridge reflects on the human desire for peace and compromise amidst conflict.
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The passions of men stimulate them to avail themselves of the weakness of others.
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.
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