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Edmund Burke: He thinks that all the resources of ingenuity ought to be employed to baffle chicane, not to support it.

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He thinks that all the resources of ingenuity ought to be employed to baffle chicane, not to support it.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke emphasizes the importance of using ingenuity to combat deceit in legal matters.

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