Edmund Burke: “I have, for one, been born in this order of things, and would fain die…”

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I have, for one, been born in this order of things, and would fain die in it.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke expresses his attachment to the established order of society and his desire to remain within it until death.

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Edmund Burke: “I have, for one, been born in this order of things, and would fain die in it.”