Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke






PLEASURES OF ANALOGY.

The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and satisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching for differences: because by making resemblances we produce NEW IMAGES; we unite, we create, we enlarge our stock; but in making distinctions we offer no food at all to the we derive from it is something of a negative and indirect nature.




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