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But can any man justify an act, because ten or a dozen years after another man has done the same thing?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But can any man justify an act, because ten or a dozen years after another man has done the same thing?”
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Burke questions the validity of justifying an action based on similar past actions, challenging the rationale behind such reasoning.
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