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On this scheme, the maker of the experiment must begin with a determined perjury.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “On this scheme, the maker of the experiment must begin with a determined perjury.”
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Burke critiques the moral implications of deceit in political experiments.
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