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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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