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If we repent of our good actions, what, I pray you, is left for our faults and follies?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If we repent of our good actions, what, I pray you, is left for our faults and follies?”
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Burke questions the value of regret over good actions compared to the weight of our faults.
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