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Edmund Burke: Dreadful is the example of ruined innocence and virtue, and the completest triumph of the completest villany that ever…

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Dreadful is the example of ruined innocence and virtue, and the completest triumph of the completest villany that ever vexed and disgraced mankind!
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Edmund Burke

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Burke laments the triumph of evil over innocence and virtue.

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