People would think the tears that Garrick formerly, or that Siddons not long since, have extorted from me, were the tears of hypocrisy; I should know them to be the tears of folly.
Burke reflects on how his emotional responses to theatrical performances would be perceived as hypocritical if he were to celebrate real-life suffering.
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