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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to… — Edmund Burke

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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke
1770
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Current citation
Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
Original citation
Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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