Edmund Burke: “This is their impure Vestal fire that never is extinguished: and never…”

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This is their impure Vestal fire that never is extinguished: and never will it be extinguished, whilst the system of Regicide exists in France.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke likens the enduring hatred to an unquenchable fire fueled by the existence of the Regicide system in France.

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