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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
Men
Free
Faculties
Use
Faculty
Reason
Puts
Human
Confusion
Humans
Leaves
Thing
Rational
Mind
Guilt
Perverts
Never
Longer
Distorts

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