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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

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
Reason
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Human
Confusion
Humans
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Thing
Rational
Mind
Guilt
Perverts
Never
Longer
Distorts
Men
Free
Faculties
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