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There is no centaur of fiction, no poetic satyr of the woods, nothing short of the hieroglyphic monsters of Egypt, dog in head and man in body, that can give an idea of it.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke uses vivid imagery to express the bizarre nature of the political situation.
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