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* Similarly, the Arends in the ''[[Belgariad]]'' also tended to fight constantly for foolish reasons. Their civil war over which Duke would become King was fairly significant, but the fact that the fighting continued for an additional five hundred years before the issue was finally resolved by sorting out a legal technicality qualifies.
* ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'' has a chapter-long aside about a war between France and Switzerland that starts when the countries disagree about what to name the French heir.
* Donald Westlake's short story "Don't You Know There's a War On?" had an exploratory starship touch down on a [[Lost Colony]] that'd been fighting a [[Civil War]] for '''400 years''' over a paradox propounded by humorist Robert Benchley: "There are two kinds of people in the world -- those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don't." As one of the starship's crew points out, whether you agree or disagree with his paradox, you prove Benchley correct.
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