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When the new plan is established, those who are now suitors for jobs will become the most strenuous opposers of them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “When the new plan is established, those who are now suitors for jobs will become the most strenuous opposers of them.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke predicts that those currently seeking jobs will eventually oppose such practices once a new system is in place.
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