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Edmund Burke: “Personal self-sufficiency and arrogance (the certain attendants upon all those who have never experienced a wisdom…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Personal self-sufficiency and arrogance (the certain attendants upon all those who have never experienced a wisdom greater than their own) would usurp the tribunal.
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Edmund Burke

Editor's note · Context

Burke warns that unchecked individual arrogance, born from a lack of respect for past wisdom, can corrupt the institutions of justice and governance.

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