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Nothing could have saved the public from the mischiefs of the false reform but its absurdity, which would soon have brought itself, and with it all real reform, into discredit.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the absurdity of false reforms would ultimately discredit both itself and genuine reform efforts.
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