I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
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Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (1780-09-09).Edmund Burke
Burke, Edmund
Burke, James (science historian)
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