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The errors of Louis the Sixteenth were more pardonable to prudence than any of those of the same kind into which the allied courts may fall.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The errors of Louis the Sixteenth were more pardonable to prudence than any of those of the same kind into which the…”
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Burke reflects on the relative nature of errors made by Louis XVI compared to those of allied courts.
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