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But time at length has made us all of one opinion, and we have all opened our eyes on the true nature of the American war,--to the true nature of all its successes and all its failures.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But time at length has made us all of one opinion, and we have all opened our eyes on the true nature of the American…”
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Burke observes a collective realization about the true nature of the American war over time.
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