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Presents from persons who hold up poverty as a shield against extortion can scarcely in any case be considered as gratuitous, whether the plea of poverty be true or false.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that gifts made under duress cannot be considered truly voluntary, questioning the morality of such transactions.
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