"Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies."

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Source: Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Edmund Burke was an 18th-century Irish statesman and philosopher, known for his writings on political theory and his critique of the French Revolution.

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"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour."

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