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Here are indeed new discoveries, but they are like many new-discovered lands, exceedingly inhospitable, very thinly inhabited, and producing nothing to gratify the curiosity of the human mind.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke uses a metaphor to describe the disappointing nature of new revelations in a case.
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