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But I acted then, as I act now, and as I hope I shall act always, from a strong impulse of right, and from motives in which popularity, either here or there, has but a very little part.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes that his actions are driven by a sense of right rather than a desire for popularity.
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