There prejudice corrects prejudice, and the different asperities of party zeal mitigate and neutralize each other.
Edmund Burke: “There prejudice corrects prejudice, and the different asperities of party zeal mitigate and neutralize each other.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke notes how differing opinions in Parliament can balance out biases.
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