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"It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation."

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But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

— John Dryden

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To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

— George Santayana

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