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Trace them through all their artifices, frauds, and violences, you can find nothing at all that is new.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Trace them through all their artifices, frauds, and violences, you can find nothing at all that is new.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke notes the lack of originality in the methods used by those seeking power.
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