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Edmund Burke: “Deliberate injuries, to a degree, must be remembered, because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against…”

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Deliberate injuries, to a degree, must be remembered, because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke emphasizes the importance of remembering deliberate wrongs to prevent their recurrence.

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