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I believe your Lordships will think that there is not, with regard to some of these princes, a more dreadful thing that can be said of them than that he has obtained their thanks.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the notion that receiving thanks from oppressed princes is a positive endorsement of one's actions.
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