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What I propose, however, is but a beginning of a course of measures which an experience of the effects of the evil and the reform will enable the legislature hereafter to supply and correct.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke outlines that his proposals are just the beginning of a series of measures aimed at reforming the situation.
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