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By such a separation Ireland would be the most completely undone country in the world,--the most wretched, the most distracted, and, in the end, the most desolate part of the habitable globe.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the catastrophic effects that separation would have on Ireland, making it the most devastated country.
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