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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Ought
Hate
Never
Love

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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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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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