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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights but not to equal things.
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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.
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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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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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