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Every hour you continue on this ill-chosen ground, your difficulties thicken on you; and therefore my conclusion is, remove from a bad position as quickly as you can.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes the importance of quickly changing a poor strategy to avoid worsening difficulties.
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