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Edmund Burke

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Otherwise you will be wise historically, a fool in practice.”

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Reflections on the Revolution in France Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
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