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Whenever your enemy chooses to accuse you of perfidy and ill faith, will you put it into his power to throw you into the purgatory of self-humiliation?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke advises against allowing accusations of betrayal to lead to self-deprecation and humiliation.
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