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Edmund Burke

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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.

 
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

 
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Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.

 
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