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It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.”
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He argues that exercising the spirit of resistance, even when misguided, is preferable to inaction.
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