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Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Spring
Lying
Perennial
Falsehood
Liars

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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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