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Edmund Burke

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.
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Actually from Frederic Harrison's essay "Ruskin as Prophet", in his Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates (1899).

 
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