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If it had pleased God to suffer him to succeed in this his project for the amendment to the address, he would forever have ruined this nation, along with the rest of Europe.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns that if a certain project had succeeded, it would have led to the ruin of the nation and Europe.
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