All <i>general</i> privations are great, because they are a… - Edmund Burke

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All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence.

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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