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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Dublin city
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
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Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
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The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
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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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Those who attempt to level never equalize
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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