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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
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Statesman
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Dublin city
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
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The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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