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If you did, you would root out everything that is valuable in the human breast.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If you did, you would root out everything that is valuable in the human breast.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that eradicating certain principles would lead to the loss of what is truly valuable in humanity.
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