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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

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
License
Liberty
Wisdom
Without

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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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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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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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