Quote by Edmund Burke
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he ind

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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