The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.…

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The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. ✨ Edmund Burke (2010). On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.
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