On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is one of the excellences of a method in which time is amongst the assistants, that its operation is slow, and in some cases almost imperceptible.
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Edmund Burke
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Advocating for incremental change, Burke explains that the virtue of a time-assisted method of reform lies in its slow and often subtle operation.
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