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I have no wish to deny that our successes are as brilliant as any one chooses to make them; our resources, too, may, for me, be as unfathomable as they are represented.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke recognizes the potential for success but also the limits of resources as perceived by others.
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