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It is a controversy (weak, indeed, and unequal, on the one part) between the proprietor and the robber, between the prisoner and the jailer, between the neck and the guillotine.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the power dynamics between oppressors and the oppressed, using vivid imagery to illustrate the struggle.
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