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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason, that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke philosophically reflects on the relationship between wickedness and madness, suggesting that extreme wickedness is often linked to a form of insanity.
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