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Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

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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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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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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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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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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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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
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A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
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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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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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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