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Edmund Burke: God forbid!--my part is taken: I would take my fate with the poor and low and feeble.

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God forbid!--my part is taken: I would take my fate with the poor and low and feeble.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke expresses his commitment to stand with the poor and weak in the face of adversity.

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