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And those who were great among them I considered as my brethren; and I regarded the poor as my children.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “And those who were great among them I considered as my brethren; and I regarded the poor as my children.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke expresses a sense of familial connection with both the powerful and the poor in society.
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