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Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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