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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Dublin city
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
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