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The danger of anything very dear to us removes, for the moment, every other affection from the mind.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The danger of anything very dear to us removes, for the moment, every other affection from the mind.”
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Burke reflects on how the fear of losing something dear can overshadow all other feelings.
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