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Even now, I do not know of one man, woman, or child that has perished from famine: fewer, if any, I believe, than in years of plenty, when such a thing may happen by accident.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke reassures that famine has not led to deaths, contrasting it with previous years of plenty.
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