diff --git a/docs/en/reference/best-practices.rst b/docs/en/reference/best-practices.rst
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@@ -6,22 +6,6 @@ design generally refer to best practices when working with Doctrine
 and do not necessarily reflect best practices for database design
 in general.
 
-
-Don't use public properties on entities
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-
-It is very important that you don't map public properties on
-entities, but only protected or private ones. The reason for this
-is simple, whenever you access a public property of a proxy object
-that hasn't been initialized yet the return value will be null.
-Doctrine cannot hook into this process and magically make the
-entity lazy load.
-
-This can create situations where it is very hard to debug the
-current failure. We therefore urge you to map only private and
-protected properties on entities and use getter methods or magic
-\_\_get() to access them.
-
 Constrain relationships as much as possible
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