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Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters Quotes: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the
         

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the


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This page presents the quote "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the". Author of this quote is Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters. This quote is about presumption, preface-to-brissot-s-address, knowledge, ridicule, arrogance, omniscience, truth, pomposity, judgment,.