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Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.”
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Burke discusses how both extreme poverty and extreme wealth can blind individuals.
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