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You have seen, that, when he takes two hundred pounds a day for his entertainment, he tells you that in this very act he is starving fourteen hundred of the ancient nobility and gentry.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke points out the moral implications of extravagant spending that harms the nobility and gentry.
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