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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Edmund Burke

Fire, Play, House

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 10

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

Edmund Burke

Christian, Hypocrite, House

Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.277, University of Chicago Press