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Why, because it was base and dishonorable so to do; and because it would be mischievous and ruinous to the Company's affairs to suffer them to take bribes." Why, then, did he take them himself?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions the hypocrisy of taking bribes while acknowledging their dishonor.
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