Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ✨ 'A Tract on the Popery Laws'…

Edmund Burke
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ✨ 'A Tract on the Popery Laws' (planned c.1765) ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another. ✨ 'A Tract on the Popery Laws' (planned c.1765) ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

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