"Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much."
"The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw."
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Source: Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.403
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