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Edmund Burke on Learning from Past Errors
Found in: Select Works of Edmund Burke, vol. 2
Perhaps more than any great thinker, Edmund Burke is associated with history— especially the traditions and institutions it hands down. But he also recognized the value of history as a teacher by example:
Society
In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.