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Even buildings run up in haste with untempered mortar in that humid weather, if they are ill-contrived tenements, do not threaten long to incumber the earth.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke uses the metaphor of poorly constructed buildings to illustrate the consequences of hastily made decisions.
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