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Libelling is not the crime of an illiterate people.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Libelling is not the crime of an illiterate people.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the act of libelling is not characteristic of an uneducated society, implying a connection between literacy and civic responsibility.
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