No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ✨ George…

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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ✨ George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings, p.82
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