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Experimentum in corpore vili is a good rule, which will ever make me adverse to any trial of experiments on what is certainly the most valuable of all subjects, the peace of this empire.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns against experimental governance, emphasizing the importance of stability for the empire's peace.
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