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Hastings and his counsel to have become the instrument of destroying his mother and grandmother, and everything else that ought to be dear to mankind, throughout the whole train of his family.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke condemns Hastings for his actions against his own family, highlighting the moral decay in his pursuit of wealth.
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