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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Edmund Burke
Ideas, Solitude, Purpose
Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Edmund Burke
Prejudice, Purpose, Reason
Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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