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But, secondly, if anything can tend to revive and keep it up, it is to keep alive the passions of men by ill usage.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But, secondly, if anything can tend to revive and keep it up, it is to keep alive the passions of men by ill usage.”
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Burke contends that ill treatment of people can revive and sustain their passions, leading to further unrest.
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