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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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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Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections it changes its object perpetually it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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