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It may be given to you in pity: for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on the compassion of all its neighbors.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It may be given to you in pity: for surely no nation ever called so pathetically on the compassion of all its neighbors.”
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Burke reflects on the plight of a nation appealing for compassion from its neighbors, highlighting its desperate situation.
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