Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!
Edmund Burke: “Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day!”
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Burke expresses a wish for a peaceful end to life, free from troubling changes.
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