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There are in all of them a hundred more difficult trifles and laborious fooleries, which serve no other purpose than to keep alive corrupt hope and servile dependence.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke reflects on the trivial complexities of governance that serve to perpetuate dependence and hope without real benefit.
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