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We know, as we are to be served by men, that the persons who serve us must be tried as men, and with a very large allowance indeed to human infirmity and human error.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke emphasizes the need to judge public servants with compassion for human flaws and errors.
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