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"Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event"
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Date: 1790
"The worst of these politics of revolution is this; they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)