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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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Mankind
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Responsibility prevents crimes.
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The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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No men can act with effect who do not act in concert no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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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 great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
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