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we only intend to stop its expansion.
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You are our brothers, you are our countrymen.
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Come back, do not leave us.
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Members of a country, he said, cannot divorce.
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He used a divorce metaphor.
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And then he ended with, "I am loathe to close.
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We are not enemies but friends.
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We must not be enemies.
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Though passion may have strained,
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it must not break our bonds of affection.
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
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and patriot grave to every living heart,