His goodness of heart, his reason, his taste, his public duty, his principles, his prejudices, would have repelled him for ever from all connection with that horrid medley of madness, vice, impiety, and crime.
Burke describes the qualities that would have kept a noble individual away from the chaos and immorality of the French Revolution.
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