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"As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

— Burke, Edmund event 1790

From Reflections on the Revolution in France

Context: From 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790), on society as a contract that binds past, present, and future generations

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