Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater pa...

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

Anglo-Irish statesman and political theorist

January 12th, 1729 - July 9th, 1797

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