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Perhaps bold speculations are more acceptable because more new to you than to us, who have been, long since satiated with them.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Perhaps bold speculations are more acceptable because more new to you than to us, who have been, long since satiated…”
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Burke reflects on the appeal of new ideas compared to the familiarity of established thoughts.
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