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Edmund Burke: I do not think that any man sent out to India is sent with an ill purpose, or goes out with bad dispositions.

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I do not think that any man sent out to India is sent with an ill purpose, or goes out with bad dispositions.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke believes that individuals sent to India generally have good intentions.

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