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As yet, notwithstanding the strutting and lying independence of a braggart philosophy, Nature maintains her rights, and great names have great prevalence.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke remarks on the enduring power of nature and the influence of prominent figures despite philosophical pretensions.
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