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What exhaustless fund of opulence could supply this destructive resource of wretchedness and misery?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “What exhaustless fund of opulence could supply this destructive resource of wretchedness and misery?”
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Burke questions the sustainability of a system that creates such widespread suffering and poverty, reflecting on the moral implications of such exploitation.
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