Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happines…

Edmund Burke
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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one. ✨ Selected Prose.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others ✨ Edmund Burke (1792). The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence … ▶
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