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

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
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The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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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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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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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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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
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