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Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

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
Religious
Sustaining
Lava
Corn
Olive
Ashes
Vine
Cheer
Cheering
Burned
Volcanoes
Peaceful
Olives
Eruptions
Grow
Factions
Squalid
Grows
Vines
Eruption

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