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To be honoured and even privileged by the laws, opinions, and inveterate usages of our country, growing out of the prejudice of ages, has nothing to provoke horror and indignation in any man.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke defends the longstanding laws and customs of a country, arguing they should not provoke horror or indignation.
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