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You find the appearance all false and fraudulent; and you see the whole trick at once.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You find the appearance all false and fraudulent; and you see the whole trick at once.”
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Burke asserts that the true nature of political operations is revealed as fraudulent and deceptive.
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