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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
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Dublin city
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
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The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
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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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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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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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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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