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Hastings to be used as he pleased, and only begs not to be made an instrument of wrong which his soul abhors, and which would make him infamous throughout the world.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke expresses the moral conflict of a man who refuses to be complicit in wrongdoing, emphasizing the importance of personal integrity.
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