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It does bear, and must, with the vices and the follies of men, until they actually strike at the root of order.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It does bear, and must, with the vices and the follies of men, until they actually strike at the root of order.”
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Burke acknowledges that society must tolerate human vices until they threaten order.
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