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Ought we, like madmen, to tear off the plasters that the lenient hand of prudence had spread over the wounds and gashes which in our delirium of ambition we had given to our own body?
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke uses a metaphor to argue against exacerbating past wounds instead of healing them.
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