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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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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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Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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