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The laws against foreign education are clearly the very worst part of the old code.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The laws against foreign education are clearly the very worst part of the old code.”
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Burke criticizes laws that restrict foreign education as detrimental to society.
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