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* Isaac Asimov's ''[[Foundation]]'' Trilogy shows that everything can be solved without resorting to violence in a incredibly clever and fascinating way, after all: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". |
* Isaac Asimov's ''[[Foundation]]'' Trilogy shows that everything can be solved without resorting to violence in a incredibly clever and fascinating way, after all: "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". |
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* ''[[War and Peace]]'': There are no [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]], only [[Smug Snake|bastards who think themselves magnificent]]. Told via an [[Author Filibuster|entire part]] just in case you didn't catch it in the plot. |
* ''[[War and Peace]]'': There are no [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]], only [[Smug Snake|bastards who think themselves magnificent]]. Told via an [[Author Filibuster|entire part]] just in case you didn't catch it in the plot. |
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* Subverted in the poem "Twice Times" by [[ |
* Subverted in the poem "Twice Times" by [[A. A. Milne|AA Milne]] about two bears, one good and one bad who then, for no apparent reason, swapped places. The poem concludes "There may be a Moral, though some say not; I think there's a moral, though I don't know what." |
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* ''[[Goblin Market]]'' concludes with a very obvious aesop: |
* ''[[Goblin Market]]'' concludes with a very obvious aesop: |
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{{quote| For there is no friend like a sister...<br /> |
{{quote| For there is no friend like a sister...<br /> |