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Yet I was loaded with hatred for everything that was withheld, and with obloquy for everything that was given.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Yet I was loaded with hatred for everything that was withheld, and with obloquy for everything that was given.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke expresses the burden of resentment for what was denied to him and criticism for what was granted.
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