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And here I will make a fair offer:--If it can be proved that they have acted wisely, prudently, and frugally, as merchants, I shall pass by the whole mass of their enormities as statesmen.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke offers a challenge to prove the Company has acted wisely in its dealings.
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