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Like all great public collections of men, you possess a marked love of virtue and an abhorrence of vice.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Like all great public collections of men, you possess a marked love of virtue and an abhorrence of vice.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke notes the House's inherent values, emphasizing a preference for virtue over vice.
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