I believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in t… - Edmund Burke

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I believe that this notion of our having a simple pain in the reality, yet a delight in the representation, arises from hence, that we do not sufficiently distinguish what we would by no means choose to do, from what we should be eager enough to see if it was once done. We delight in seeing things, which so far from doing, our heartiest wishes would be to see redressed.

Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · November 19, 1998 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was a British and Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.

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