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He, who, at the present time, is favorable or even fair to that system, must act towards it as towards a friend with frailties who is under the prosecution of implacable foes.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke advises that one must treat a flawed system with the understanding that it is under attack from relentless adversaries.
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