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Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

— Empress Dowager Cixi

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Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Had the foreign legations being subjected to the full force of bombardment, would those buildings still be intact today? (Original Chinese:設使火轟水灌，豈能一律保全？)
Source:Imperial Decree on events leading to the signing of Boxer Protocol.

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