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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

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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World
Restraint
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Virtue
Education
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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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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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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