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Its malignity towards humankind will subsist with undiminished heat, whilst the means of giving it effect must proceed, and every means of resisting it must inevitably and rapidly decline.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIts malignity towards humankind will subsist with undiminished heat, whilst the means of giving it effect must proceed, and every means of resisting it must inevitably and rapidly decline.
Burke asserts that the malevolence of oppressive powers will persist even as resistance wanes.
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