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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

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
Chip
Chips
Block
Merely
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Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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Oppression makes wise men mad but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
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