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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Approximate author period: c. 1781 AD · early modern
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- Horatio Nelson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1781 AD · early modern
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