Edmund Burke quote: It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

~ Edmund Burke ~

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It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

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