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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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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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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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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder it loads us more than millions of debt takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.
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