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I came home to raise crops, and God willing, a family. If I can live in peace, I will.
— William Wallace • Braveheart
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says he came home to farm and, with luck, raise a family. Those modest hopes come with a condition: he'll have them if peace allows. It's a quiet wish for an ordinary life, set against the trouble that may not let him have it.
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