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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 120
AUTHOR: Edmund Burke (1729–97)
QUOTATION: A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
ATTRIBUTION: EDMUND BURKE, letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, April 3, 1777.—The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, vol. 2, p. 206 (1899).
SUBJECTS: Blood