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This is to make the success of villany the standard of innocence.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “This is to make the success of villany the standard of innocence.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke argues that allowing the success of wrongdoing to define innocence undermines justice.
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