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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

  ― Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• calculators
• economists
• succeeded
• forever
• insult
• europe

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