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But, my Lords, he is no conqueror, nor anything but what you see him,--a bad scribbler of absurd papers, in which he can put no two sentences together without contradiction.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke disparages an individual by calling him a poor writer who contradicts himself, reflecting his disdain for incompetence in leadership.
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