" Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other—and land, of course. "

― Alexander McCall Smith , The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #8)