Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of Both the character they leave and of the character they Assume. (Edmund Burke)

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of Both the character they leave and of the character they Assume.

Edmund Burke

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