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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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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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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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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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For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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