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" [Edmund] Burke's predictions of the course of the French Revolution were to prove so accurate and have applied to so many other revolutions that they now constitute the general wisdom. It is however necessary to recall how shockingly cynical they seemed in 1790. "

, The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family


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 quote : [Edmund] Burke's predictions of the course of the French Revolution were to prove so accurate and have applied to so many other revolutions that they now constitute the general wisdom. It is however necessary to recall how shockingly cynical they seemed in 1790.