We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men… — Edmund Burke
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.
1770
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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.
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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.
