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I have, for one, been born in this order of things, and would fain die in it.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I have, for one, been born in this order of things, and would fain die in it.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke expresses his attachment to the established order of society and his desire to remain within it until death.
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