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A perfect equality will indeed be produced;--that is to say, equal want, equal wretchedness, equal beggary, and on the part of the petitioners, a woeful, helpless, and desperate disappointment.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the concept of enforced equality, suggesting it leads to universal suffering.
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