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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

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
Food
Facts
Reality
Body
Mind

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Turn over a new leaf.
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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
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I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
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Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.
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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin and about as valuable.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.
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