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Date: 1756
"When I confess that I think this Notion a Mistake, I know to whom I am speaking, for I am satisfied that Reasons are like Liquors, and there are some of such a Nature as none but strong Heads can bear."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)