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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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
May
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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
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I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
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