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They have no virtue or wisdom in their minds, to which, in a disappointment concerning the profitable effects of fraud and cunning, they can retreat.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They have no virtue or wisdom in their minds, to which, in a disappointment concerning the profitable effects of fraud…”
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Burke claims that fraudsters lack the moral or intellectual resources to change their ways when faced with failure.
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