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Edmund Burke: “If he learns this lesson from such an object, and from such teachers, the man may remain, but the king is deposed.”

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If he learns this lesson from such an object, and from such teachers, the man may remain, but the king is deposed.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that a king must carry the memory of tragic events in his heart to be worthy of his position.

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