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Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolitic.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke defends the idea of some regulated preference for birth as a natural and just aspect of society.
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