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Let them open their own eyes, which degeneracy and pusillanimity have shut from the light that pains them, and let them not vainly seek their security in a voluntary ignorance of their danger.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke urges people to recognize their dangers rather than remain willfully ignorant.
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