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Have they diversified the scene by the least variety, or produced the face of a single new villany?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Have they diversified the scene by the least variety, or produced the face of a single new villany?”
Editor's note · Context
Burke challenges the notion that revolutionaries have diversified their methods of wrongdoing.
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