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all for one and one for all

AWL for WUN and WUN for AWL

ɔːl fɔːr wʌn ænd wʌn fɔːr ɔːl

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allforoneandoneforall

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a declaration of total mutual solidarity in which each member of a group commits to the welfare of every other and the group as a whole commits to the welfare of each individual; the principle that no member will be left unsupported and that the group's strength is inseparable from the wellbeing of its weakest member; made famous as the motto of Alexandre Dumas's Three Musketeers, the phrase has become the archetypal expression of group loyalty and mutual obligation in sport, military organisations, and cooperative communities

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