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Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.”
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Burke reflects on the moral responsibility of the present generation to care for their time.
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