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These historians, recorders, and blazoners of virtues and arms differ wholly from that other description of historians who never assign any act of politicians to a good motive.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke differentiates between historians who attribute good motives to politicians and those who do not, emphasizing a critical view of political motivations.
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