There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence,…

Edmund Burke
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There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. ✨ Edmund Burke (1807). The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, p.317
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