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The worst abuses were corrected, and the most crying iniquities swept away, save that iniquity of the exemption of the privileged orders, which Turgot could not yet venture to touch.
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John Morley
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Morley acknowledges the reforms made by Turgot, while noting the persistent privilege of certain social classes.
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