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Why should we resolve to do nothing, because what I propose to you may not be the exact demand of the petition, when we are far from resolved to comply even with what evidently is so?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the reluctance to act on proposals that may not meet all demands, urging a more proactive approach.
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