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Such migrations, sometimes by choice, more frequently from necessity, were common in the ancient world.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Such migrations, sometimes by choice, more frequently from necessity, were common in the ancient world.”
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Burke asserts that migrations in the ancient world were often driven by necessity.
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