I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country church…

Edmund Burke
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. ✨ Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, p.221, Cambridge University Press
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. ✨ Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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