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Neither the merits nor the ill deserts, neither the wealth and importance nor the indigence and obscurity, of the one part or of the other, can make any alteration in this fundamental truth.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke asserts that neither social status nor wealth can alter the fundamental truths of justice.
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