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Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Author or tradition
- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1729–1797)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 270 · printed citation: Burke · subject: Vice
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