Burke Wrote

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“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“I loved, but woman fell away;
I hid me from her faded fame.
I snatched the sun’s eternal ray
And wrote till earth was but a name.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)