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I never heard a more elaborate, more able, more convincing, and more shameful speech.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgI never heard a more elaborate, more able, more convincing, and more shameful speech.
Burke critiques a speech he found to be both impressive and morally reprehensible.
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