Eggs at the Smaller End
Reldresal: It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
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Context: A Lilliputian minister explains to Gulliver the bitter quarrel over which end of an egg should be broken.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Part I, Chapter IV