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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
Art
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Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
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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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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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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .
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