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The panegyric and the satire ought to be suffered to go to trial; and that which shrinks from if must be contented to stand, at best, as a mere declamation.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke insists that both praise and satire should be tested against reality, rather than merely being rhetorical flourishes.
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