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He has learned nothing from the far greater number of them than a full certainty of their shallowness, levity, pride, petulance, presumption, and ignorance.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “He has learned nothing from the far greater number of them than a full certainty of their shallowness, levity, pride…”
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Burke expresses his disappointment in the shallow and presumptuous nature of many modern thinkers.
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