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It will take its perpetual tenor, it will receive its final impression, from the stamp of this very hour.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It will take its perpetual tenor, it will receive its final impression, from the stamp of this very hour.”
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Burke asserts that the decisions made in the present will have lasting effects on the future.
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