The dolphins and the whales were at war. As the struggle dragged on and grew fierce, a gudgeon, a little fish, rose to the surface and tried to reconcile them. But one of the dolphins spoke up and said, "It is less humiliating for us to fight and perish at one another's hands than to have you for a mediator."
People of no merit may imagine themselves important when public disorder gives them a moment of attention.
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