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Edmund Burke: False facts, false colors, false names of persons and things, are its whole support.

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False facts, false colors, false names of persons and things, are its whole support.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the foundation of falsehood relies on misleading information and misrepresentation.

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