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For whose use, entertainment, or instruction are all those overstrained and overlabored proceedings in council, in negotiation, and in speeches in Parliament intended?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the purpose behind the elaborate proceedings in government, suggesting they may lack genuine intent.
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