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Edmund Burke Quotes: 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.


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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.
         



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