On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
You are terrifying yourselves with ghosts and apparitions, whilst your house is the haunt of robbers.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “You are terrifying yourselves with ghosts and apparitions, whilst your house is the haunt of robbers.”
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Burke warns against being preoccupied with imagined threats while real and present dangers are ignored.
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