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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
Mischief
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Arise
Words
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Vex

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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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