For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what groun…

Cormac McCarthy
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it? ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, p.320, Vintage
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