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Having tasted once the food of confiscation, the favorites became fierce and ravenous.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Having tasted once the food of confiscation, the favorites became fierce and ravenous.”
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Burke describes how those who benefit from confiscation become increasingly greedy.
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