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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
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Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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