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These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.”
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Burke critiques historians who only focus on the positive aspects of human nature.
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