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I parted with it as with a limb, but as a limb to save the body: and I would have parted with more, if more had been necessary; anything rather than a fruitless, hopeless, unnatural civil war.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke expresses the deep personal sacrifice he is willing to make to avoid civil war.
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