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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke
Language, Speak, Virtue
Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

Edmund Burke
May, Language, Clearness
Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.187

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Edmund Burke
Style, Language, Purity
Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.129, CUP Archive

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