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I would therefore, after their example, divide the public debts into three sorts,--good, bad, and doubtful.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I would therefore, after their example, divide the public debts into three sorts,--good, bad, and doubtful.”
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Burke proposes categorizing public debts into three types to better manage and address them.
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