That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332
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