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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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