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Their turpitude purveys to their malice; and they unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Their turpitude purveys to their malice; and they unplumb the dead for bullets to assassinate the living.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke describes the moral decay of revolutionaries who exploit the dead to harm the living.
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