The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is…

Edmund Burke
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ✨ Edmund Burke (2010). On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.
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