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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgiv

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke

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